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On the Information Diffusion Between Web-Based Social Networks

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The topic of Information diffusion has been in the centre of sociology interest for many years. Even before the rise of Online Social Networks (OSNs), social ties and the way the information flows have been studied in traditional real-life social networks. In this paper, we propose the concept of multilayer information flow, by considering every On-line Social Network (OSN) as a separate layer and the information as links connecting these layers. Under such formalization, information is spread from a source layer, while it is diffused in multiple other layers. In order to validate our proposal, experimentations are focused on Reddit and its content, by observing the diffusion of its posts and related content in ImgUr and YouTube.

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Notes

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    http://amix.dk/blog/post/19588.

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    Every observed pattern can be found, in the appendix of a draft version of this paper, at http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.1486.

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    http://www.beevolve.com/twitter-statistics/, published results from October 2012.

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    https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-data-team/anatomy-of-facebook/10150388519243859.

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  1. School of Sciences, Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly, Lamia, Greece

    Giannis Haralabopoulos & Ioannis Anagnostopoulos

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  1. University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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  2. Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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  3. University of Genova, Genova, Italy

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  4. CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra, Australia

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  5. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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  7. Victoria University, Footscray, Australia

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Haralabopoulos, G., Anagnostopoulos, I. (2015). On the Information Diffusion Between Web-Based Social Networks. In: Benatallah, B., et al. Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2014 Workshops. WISE 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9051. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20370-6_2

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