Facebook and Twitter have changed the way we consume information, allowing the people we follow to become our “social filters” and determine the content of our information stre...
Michal Jacovi, Ido Guy, Inbal Ronen, Adam Perer, E...
We study the relationship between Facebook popularity (number of contacts) and personality traits on a large number of subjects. We test to which extent two prevalent viewpoints h...
Daniele Quercia, Renaud Lambiotte, David Stillwell...
We have friends we consider very close and acquaintances we barely know. The social sciences use the term tie strength to denote this differential closeness with the people in our...
Social applications on the web let users track and follow the activities of a large number of others regardless of location or affiliation. There is a potential for this transpare...
Laura A. Dabbish, H. Colleen Stuart, Jason Tsay, J...
The status updates posted to social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, contain a myriad of information about what people are doing and watching. During events, such as sports...