Planetary-scale views on a large instant-messaging network Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:4179648, abstract = {We present a study of anonymized data capturing a month of high-level communication activities within the whole of the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging system. We examine characteristics and patterns that emerge from the collective dynamics of large numbers of people, rather than the actions and characteristics of individuals. The dataset contains summary properties of 30 billion conversations among 240 million people. From the data, we construct a communication graph with 180 million nodes and 1.3 billion undirected edges, creating the largest social network constructed and analyzed to date. We report on multiple aspects of the dataset and synthesized graph. We find that the graph is well-connected and robust to node removal. We investigate on a planetary-scale the oft-cited report that people are separated by "six degrees of separation" and find that the average path length among Messenger users is 6.6. We find that people tend to communicate more with each other when they have similar age, language, and location, and that cross-gender conversations are both more frequent and of longer duration than conversations with the same gender.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Leskovec, Jure and Horvitz, Eric}, booktitle = {WWW '08: Proceeding of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web}, citeulike-article-id = {4179648}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1367497.1367620}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1367497.1367620}, doi = {10.1145/1367497.1367620}, isbn = {978-1-60558-085-2}, keywords = {analysis, network}, location = {Beijing, China}, pages = {915--924}, posted-at = {2009-07-01 13:24:31}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Planetary-scale views on a large instant-messaging network}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1367497.1367620}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:4179648 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4179648 N2 - We present a study of anonymized data capturing a month of high-level communication activities within the whole of the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging system. We examine characteristics and patterns that emerge from the collective dynamics of large numbers of people, rather than the actions and characteristics of individuals. The dataset contains summary properties of 30 billion conversations among 240 million people. From the data, we construct a communication graph with 180 million nodes and 1.3 billion undirected edges, creating the largest social network constructed and analyzed to date. We report on multiple aspects of the dataset and synthesized graph. We find that the graph is well-connected and robust to node removal. We investigate on a planetary-scale the oft-cited report that people are separated by "six degrees of separation" and find that the average path length among Messenger users is 6.6. We find that people tend to communicate more with each other when they have similar age, language, and location, and that cross-gender conversations are both more frequent and of longer duration than conversations with the same gender. CY - Beijing, China SN - 978-1-60558-085-2 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 924 TI - Planetary-scale views on a large instant-messaging network PB - ACM T2 - WWW '08: Proceeding of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web SP - 915 KW - analysis KW - network AU - Leskovec, Jure AU - Horvitz, Eric PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1367497.1367620 ER -