Information revelation and privacy in online social networks
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I tube, you tube, everybody tubes: analyzing the world's largest user generated content video system
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Measurement and analysis of online social networks
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Proceedings of the first workshop on Online social networks
Poking facebook: characterization of osn applications
Proceedings of the first workshop on Online social networks
Unveiling facebook: a measurement study of social network based applications
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A measure of online social networks
COMSNETS'09 Proceedings of the First international conference on COMmunication Systems And NETworks
Understanding online social network usage from a network perspective
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WOSN'10 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Online social networks
Listen to me if you can: tracking user experience of mobile network on social media
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Exploiting locality of interest in online social networks
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Analyzing the impact of events in an online music community
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Understanding website complexity: measurements, metrics, and implications
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
The anatomy of a large mobile massively multiplayer online game
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Navigation characteristics of online social networks and search engines users
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM workshop on Workshop on online social networks
The anatomy of a large mobile massively multiplayer online game
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review - Special october issue SIGCOMM '12
On the bursty evolution of online social networks
Proceedings of the First ACM International Workshop on Hot Topics on Interdisciplinary Social Networks Research
Beyond friendship: modeling user activity graphs on social network-based gifting applications
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Internet measurement conference
Towards a workload model for online social applications: ICPE 2013 work-in-progress paper
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering
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With over half a billion users, Online Social Networks (OSNs) are the major new applications on the Internet. Little information is available on the network impact of OSNs, although there is every expectation that the volume and diversity of traffic due to OSNs is set to explode. In this paper, we examine the specific role played by a key component of OSNs: the extremely popular and widespread set of third-party applications on some of the most popular OSNs. With over 81,000 third-party applications on Facebook alone, their impact is hard to predict and even harder to study. We have developed and launched a number of Facebook applications, of which are among the most popular applications on Facebook in active use by several million users monthly. Through our applications, we are able to gather, analyze, correlate, and report their workload characteristics and performance from the perspective of the application servers. Coupled with PlanetLab experiments, where active probes are sent through Facebook to access a set of diverse applications, we are able to study how Facebook forwarding/processing of requests/responses impacts the overall delay performance perceived by end-users. These insights help provide guidelines for OSNs and application developers. We have also made the data studied here publicly available to the research community. This is the first and only known study of popular third-party applications on OSNs at this depth.