Graphs over time: densification laws, shrinking diameters and possible explanations
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Structure and evolution of online social networks
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Analysis of topological characteristics of huge online social networking services
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Measurement and analysis of online social networks
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Microscopic evolution of social networks
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Understanding online social network usage from a network perspective
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Towards understanding the external links of video sharing sites: measurement and analysis
Proceedings of the 20th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
WOSN'10 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Online social networks
Measuring user behavior in online social networks
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Sizing up online social networks
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Delayed information cascades in Flickr: Measurement, analysis, and modeling
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POAuth: privacy-aware open authorization for native apps on smartphone platforms
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication
Beyond friendship: modeling user activity graphs on social network-based gifting applications
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Internet measurement conference
Evolution of User Activity and Community Formation in an Online Social Network
ASONAM '12 Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012)
Modeling/predicting the evolution trend of osn-based applications
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
Modeling/predicting the evolution trend of osn-based applications
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
Buddy2GuessWho: a smartphone application in on-line social network platform
Proceedings of the 2013 Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems
Modeling and predicting the growth and death of membership-based websites
Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on World wide web
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While some empirical studies on Online Social Networks (OSNs) have examined the growth of these systems, little is known about the patterns of decline in user population or user activity (in terms of visiting their OSN account) in large OSNs, mainly because capturing the required information is challenging. In this paper, we examine the evolution of user population and user activity in a popular OSN, namely MySpace. Leveraging more than 360K randomly sampled profiles, we characterize both the pattern of departure and the level of activity among MySpace users. Our main findings can be summarized as follows: (i) A significant fraction of accounts have been deleted and a large fraction of valid accounts have not been visited for more than three months. (ii) One third of public accounts are owned by users who abandon their accounts shortly after creation (i.e., tourists). We leverage this information to estimate the account creation time of other users from their user IDs. (iii) We demonstrate that the growth of allocated user IDs in MySpace was exponential, followed by a sudden and significant slow-down in April 2008 due to an increase in the popularity of Facebook. If such up- and down-turns are symptomatic of OSNs, they raise the obvious question: What are the main forces that enable some systems to compete and strive in the Internet's OSN eco-system, while others decline and ultimately die out?