We know who you followed last summer: inferring social link creation times in twitter
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web
Fragile online relationship: a first look at unfollow dynamics in twitter
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The impact of network structure on breaking ties in online social networks: unfollowing on twitter
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Link formation analysis in microblogs
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Structural link analysis and prediction in microblogs
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Measuring media-based social interactions provided by smartphone applications in social networks
SBNMA '11 Proceedings of the 2011 ACM workshop on Social and behavioural networked media access
Designing social translucence over social networks
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
We love rock 'n' roll: analyzing and predicting friendship links in Last.fm
Proceedings of the 3rd Annual ACM Web Science Conference
Who will follow whom? exploiting semantics for link prediction in attention-information networks
ISWC'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on The Semantic Web - Volume Part I
LaFT-tree: perceiving the expansion trace of one's circle of friends in online social networks
Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Structures of broken ties: exploring unfollow behavior on twitter
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Predicting interactions in online social networks: an experiment in Second Life
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media
A longitudinal study of follow predictors on twitter
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Learning latent friendship propagation networks with interest awareness for link prediction
Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Exploring Twitter networks in parallel computing environments
Proceedings of the Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Gateway to Discovery
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New ties are often formed between people who already have friends in common. Though the social sciences have addressed the effects of existing structural patterns on the formation of new ties, less attention has been given to ties in directed networks. Drawing from the microblogging service Twitter, we conducted a web-based experiment in which subjects were asked to rate their interest in forming ties to other people, blind to existing network connections between them. We show that two structural characteristics, transitivity and mutuality, are significant predictors of the desire to form new ties. Our findings shed light on tie formation, especially in online networks.