Introduction to Algorithms
Graphs over time: densification laws, shrinking diameters and possible explanations
Proceedings of the eleventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery in data mining
Information revelation and privacy in online social networks
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM workshop on Privacy in the electronic society
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
Internet social network communities: Risk taking, trust, and privacy concerns
Computers in Human Behavior
A measurement-driven analysis of information propagation in the flickr social network
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
Characterizing user behavior in online social networks
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
What is Twitter, a social network or a news media?
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World
Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World
Distance matters: geo-social metrics for online social networks
WOSN'10 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Online social networks
Do all birds tweet the same?: characterizing twitter around the world
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
On word-of-mouth based discovery of the web
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Google+ or Google-?: dissecting the evolution of the new OSN in its first year
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
Dynamics of personal social relationships in online social networks: a study on twitter
Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Online social networks
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This paper presents a detailed analysis of the Google+ social network. We identify the key differences and similarities with other popular networks like Facebook and Twitter, in order to determine whether Google+ is a new paradigm or yet another social network. This work is based on large-scale crawls of over 27 million user profiles that represented nearly 50% of the entire network in 2011. We observe that the average path length between users is slightly higher than other networks, possibly because Google+ is a new system where relationships are still rapidly growing. Google+ shows a higher level of reciprocity than Twitter, which also has directed social links. The newly available "places lived" field could be used to study how users are distributed around the world and how aggressively the service has been adopted in different countries. We find that Google+ is popular in countries with relatively low Internet penetration rate. Based on the amount and types of information publicly shared in user profiles, we also find that the notion of privacy varies significantly across different cultures.