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Title: | Poking facebook: characterization of osn applications |
Authors: | Gjoka, Minas Markopoulou, Athina Sirivianos, Michael |
metadata.dc.contributor.other: | Σιριβιανός, Μιχάλης |
Major Field of Science: | Engineering and Technology |
Field Category: | Computer and Information Sciences |
Keywords: | Online social networks;Computer science;Internet |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
Source: | WOSN '08 Proceedings of the first workshop on online social networks, 2008, pp. 31-36 |
Abstract: | Facebook is one of the most popular Internet sites today. A key feature that arguably contributed to Facebook's unprecedented success is its application platform, which enables the development of third-party social-networking applications. Understanding how these applications are installed and used is important for the function and utility of web-based online social networks, e.g. to better engineer them and/or to design advertising campaigns. In this paper, we characterize the popularity and user reach of Facebook applications. We analyze application usage data gathered over a period of six months from Facebook and Adonomics - a Facebook analytics service. We also crawl publicly accessible Facebook user profiles and obtain per-user application installation statistics, for approximately 300K users and 13.6K applications. Our findings include that (i) the popularity of Facebook applications has a highly skewed distribution; (ii) although the total number of application installations increases with time, the average user activity decreases; and (iii) users with more applications installed are more likely to install new applications |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/1603 |
ISBN: | 978-1-60558-182-8 |
DOI: | 10.1145/1397735.1397743 |
Rights: | © ACM 2008 |
Type: | Book Chapter |
Affiliation: | University of California |
Appears in Collections: | Κεφάλαια βιβλίων/Book chapters |
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