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Structure and evolution of online social networks
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Analysis of topological characteristics of huge online social networking services
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Measurement and analysis of online social networks
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Planetary-scale views on a large instant-messaging network
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
User interactions in social networks and their implications
Proceedings of the 4th ACM European conference on Computer systems
Find me if you can: improving geographical prediction with social and spatial proximity
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
What is Twitter, a social network or a news media?
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
The little engine(s) that could: scaling online social networks
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference
Understanding latent interactions in online social networks
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Exploiting locality of interest in online social networks
Proceedings of the 6th International COnference
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web
TailGate: handling long-tail content with a little help from friends
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web
Geographic aspects of tie strength and value of information in social networking
Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks
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Online friendship connections are often not representative of social relationships or shared interest between users, but merely provide a public display of personal identity. A better picture of online social behaviour can be achieved by taking into account the intensity of communication levels between users, yielding useful insights for service providers supporting this communication. Among the several factors impacting user interactions, geographic distance might be affecting how users communicate with their friends. While spatial proximity appears influencing how people connect to each other even on the Web, the relationship between social interaction and spatial distance remains unexplored. In this work we analyse the relationship between online user interactions and geographic proximity with a detailed study of a large Spanish online social service. Our results show that while geographic distance strongly affects how social links are created, spatial proximity plays a negligible role on user interactions. These findings offer new insights on the interplay between social and spatial factors influencing online user behaviour and open new directions for future research and applications.