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Fragile Online Relationship: A First Look at Unfollow Dynamics in Twitter
Workshop on Privacy and Security on Social Media
2011.1.18. UFMG
Haewoon Kwak, Hyunwoo Chun, Changhyun Lee Hosung Park, Sue Moon
Department of Computer Science
KAIST
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Overview
• Where am I from?
• Introduction on Twitter
• Analysis of “unfollow” dynamics
• Future directions
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Korea?
from www.googlemaps.com
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KAIST in Seoul?
INCHEON S SEOUL
DAEJEON
2hr by car, 1hr by KTX
No.
from maps.naver.com
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KAIST across Gap-chon
by Yoo Chung
My Office
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KAIST in snow
by Seungyeop Han
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Frozen Korea This Week
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Brief Overview of KAIST
• Founded in 1971 as the only school under the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST)
• Has 400+ faculty, 7000+ students – Colleges
• Natural Science • Life Science and Bioengineering • Engineering • Information Science and Technology • Business
– Graduate Schools in • Culture Technology, Web Science and Technology, Science and
Technology Policy
• Has all students waived tuition/fee
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Contributions to Korean Economy
• 20% of Ph.D.s in Korean industries are KAIST graduates.
• 25% of researchers in SAMSUNG Semiconductor are KAIST graduates.
• 50% of researchers in SAMSUNG flash memory team are KAIST graduates.
• About 360 start-up companies by KAIST graduates as of 2008 - Particularly strong in Internet services and entertainment.
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Computer Science Department
• 1st graduate program in CS in Korea (1973~)
• 50 faculty, 400+ students
• The only IEEE/ACM fellow in Computer Science in Korea
• Recruiting students and faculty aggressively
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Introduction on Twitter
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Twitter, a microblog service
write a short message
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Twitter, a microblog service
read others' tweets
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Twitter, a microblog service
check out trending topics
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In most OSN
“We are friends.”
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In Twitter
“I follow you.”
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Following on Twitter
“Unlike most social networks, following on
Twitter is not mutual. Someone who
thinks you're interesting can follow you, and you don't have to approve, or follow back."
http://help.twitter.com/entries/14019-what-is-following
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http://blog.marsdencartoons.com/2009/06/18/cartoon-iranian-election-demonstrations-and-twitter/marsden-iran-twitter72/
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Typhoon Gonpas
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Twitter as a News Medium
1. Following is mostly not reciprocated (not so “social”)
2. Users talk about timely topics
3. A few users reach large audience directly
4. Most users can reach large audience by word-of-mouth (WOM) quickly
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OUTLI
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me⋅di⋅a [mee-dee-uh]
1.a pl. of medium
2.the means of communication, as radio and television, newspapers, and magazines, that reach or influence people widely
http://dictionary.reference.com/
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Data collection (09/6/1~9/24)
• 41.7M user profiles (near-complete at that time)
• 1.47B following relations
• 4262 trending topics
• 106M tweets mentioning trending topics
– Spam tweets removed by CleanTweets
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*publicly available
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Recent studies
• Ranking methodologies *WSDM’10+
• Predicting movie profits *HYPERTEXT’10+
• Recommending users *CHI’10 microblogging+
• Detecting real time events *WWW’10+
• 4 papers with Twitter in title at WWW '10
• The ‘entire’ Twittersphere unexplored
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Finding I
1.Following is mostly not reciprocated (not so “social”)
2.Users talk about timely topics
3.A few users reach large audience directly
4.Most users can reach large audience by WOM* quickly
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Why do people follow others?
• Reflection of offline social relationships
• Subscription to others’ messages
otherwise,
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Sociologists’ answer
“Reciprocal interactions pervade every relation of primitive life and in all social systems”
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Is following reciprocal?
• Only 22.1% of user pairs follow each other
• Much lower than
– 68% on Flickr
– 84% on Yahoo! 360
– 77% on Cyworld guestbook messages
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Low reciprocity of following
• Following is not used similarly as friend in OSNs
– Not reflection of offline social relationships
• Active subscription of tweets!
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Finding II
1.Following is mostly not reciprocated (not so “social”)
2.Users talk about timely topics
3.A few users reach large audience directly
4.Most users can reach large audience by WOM* quickly
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Dynamically changing trends
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Majority of topics are headline news
6.9%
"backintheday" "beyonce"
"#redsox" "lynn harris"
54.3% “headline news”
7.3% “persistent news”
31.5% “ephemeral”
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Finding III.
1.Following is mostly not reciprocated (not so “social”)
2.Users talk about timely topics
3.A few users reach large audience directly
4.Most users can reach large audience by WOM* quickly
5.Rank users based on "effective readership"
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How many followers does a user has?
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Are those w/ many followers active?
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Finding IV.
1.Following is mostly not reciprocated (not so “social”)
2.Users talk about timely topics
3.A few users reach large audience directly
4.Most users can reach large audience by word-of-mouth quickly
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In Twitter
Following
Information
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Average path length: 4.1
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Retweet (RT)
• Relay tweets from a following to followers
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Retweet (RT)
• Relay tweets from a following to followers
Free Coffee!!!
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Retweet (RT)
• Relay tweets from a following to followers
Free Coffee!!!
Free Coffee!!!
Free Coffee!!!
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Retweet (RT)
• Relay tweets from a following to followers
RT @node0 Free Coffee!!!
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Retweet (RT)
• Relay tweets from a following to followers
RT @node0 Free Coffee!!!
RT @node0 Free Coffee!!!
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Retweet (RT)
• Relay tweets from a following to followers
writer
retweeter
w r
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Retweet (RT)
• Not only 1 hop neighbors
1 hop neighbors
w r
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Retweet (RT)
2 hop neighbors
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w r
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We construct RT tree
• A tree with writer and retweeter(s)
w r
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Height of RT trees
r
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W
r r
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r r
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1 1 2
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Empirical RT trees
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96% of RT trees = Height 1
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Additional readers
3 followers
2 additional readers by retweeter
w r
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Boosting audience by RT
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Same # of Tweets, Different Pattenrs of Diffusion
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Two Sides of Relationship
• Formation and Dissolution
– Formation tradiationally well studied
– Dissolution hardly much
• Why?
– Hard to obtain data
• Proxy for dissolution
– No exchange of email [Kossinet09]
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Previous Works on Dissolution
• Half of adult friendships change over 7yr [Mollenhorst09]
• Younger children have a higher retenion rate [Cairns95, Hallinan87]
• Homophily adds stability in off-line relationship [Tuma79, Kossinets09]
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Two Questions We Raise
• How prevalent is unfollow?
• Why do people unfollow?
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Data collection (as of September 2010)
• Korean users defined as someone who
– Wrote a tweet in Korea
– Keeps bio info in Korean
– Is located in Korea
– Has a Korean screen name
• Daily snapshots of following relationsihps
– G(I): June 265th to July 15th, 2010
– G(II): August 2nd to August 31st, 2010
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Four Types of Tweet
• Tweet PSSM is now starting!
• Reply @Virgilio Fantastic Workshop! Thanks for having me!
• Mention I am attending PSSM organized by @Virgilio and @PK!
• Retweet At UFMG till tomorrow! RT @Virgilio PSSM is now starting!
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Proportion of Tweet Types
Users become more informational than interactive as the number of followees increases
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How Prevalent Is Unfollow?
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Follows and Unfollows
Unfollow is prevalent!
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Unfollow frequent
• Mostly singular
– 66% of unfollows are the only unfollow of the day
• But often clustered
– 10% with 5 or more other unfollows
• On average
– 90% of time intervals between days of unfollow is less than 9 days
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Communication partner
• Reciprocal and interactive users
– Exchange of a mention, a reply, or a retweet and vice versa
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#Comm Partners vs. #Followees
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Passive Nature of Follow
• 85.6% relationships involve no activity
• 96.3% involve 3 or fwer
• Who unfollows?
– Remove 85.6% of no activity and among those with any activity unfollowed relationships involves less activity than unbroken relationships
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Unfollow ratio vs. ego-centric ordering of relationship establishments
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# Followees vs. # Unfollowees
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More Retweets/Favorites Less Likely to Be Unfollowed
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The overlap of relationships vs. unfollow ratio
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Why Do People Unfollow?
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Interviews
Q1: Why a participant decided to unfollow.
Q2: Whether s/he thought the unfollowee was aware of being unfollowed.
Q3: If s/he broke off on other OSNs. Difference?
Q4: If s/he followed corporate accounts.
Q5: Choose 10 users s/he would never unfollow
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Demographics of 22 interviewees
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Q1: Motivations behind Unfollow
• Burst (39)
– Burst-only (13), Unintersting topic (10), Mundane details (6), Automatically generated (4), Conversation (2), Politics (2), Different Views (1), Complains (1)
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Q2: Awareness of Being Unfollowed
• A half of respondents stated that they thought unfollowees were aware of being unfollowed. – They did not know unfollowees in person
– They got used to unfollowing
– Unfollow was easy
• The other half – Unfollowees had too many followers to notice
– No convenient interface to track it
– They did not track themselves
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Q3: Break-up on other OSNs?
• Not common
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Q4: Corporate Accounts
• 8 out of 22 follow corporate accounts
– 5 kept following
– Motivaiton = expectation of prize winning
– They didn’t mind occasional ad tweets, but unfollow if ads come in bursts
– Some only participate if all participants received a gift
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Q5: Whom Not to Unfollow?
• Most respondents chose intimate friends
• Some chose their role models
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Future Work
• Break-ups in OSNs
– Implications on cognitive and social capacity of human beings
• Security on OSNs
– Exploit community structures for security
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Q&A
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Research Topics at AN Lab
• Online Social Networks
• Network Performance Measurement and Analysis
• PC-based Platforms for Future Internet
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Online Social Networks
• Characteristics of OSNs
• Communities on OSN – Community mining (IMC ‘09, COMSNET ’10)
– Community evolution (in prep)
• User Interaction on OSNs – Declared friendship vs interaction (IMC ‘08)
– Twitter as a news media (WWW ‘10)
– Unfollow behavior (CHI ‘11)
– User ranking based on retweets and human memory decay (in submission)
– Information spreading on Twitter (in prep)
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Network Performance Measurement and Analysis
• Annual Joint Workshop
• Internet-wide Path and Delay Estimation
We can show past history of e2e delay evolution and answer what-if scenarios of AS path change
• Persistent congestion:
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S/W Platforms for Future Internet
• Mobile PlanetLab
– Control channel over 3G/3.5G cellular link
• PacketShader (SIGCOMM ‘10)
– 40Gbps PC-based S/W Router
• SSLShader (NSDI ‘11)
– SSL Accelerator w/ GPU and AES-NI
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Collaborators
• Past – AT&T, Telefonica I+D, U. of Cambridge
• Online Social Networks – Hawoong Jeong (Dept of Physics, KAIST) – Wonjae Lee (Institute for Social Development and Policy
Research, Seoul National University)
• Network Performance Measurement and Analysis – Kave Salamatian (U of Savoie, France) – Timur Friedman, Serge Fdida (UPMC/LIP6) – Kenjiro Cho (WIDE, Japan)
• S/W Platforms for Future Internet – KyoungSoo Park (Dept of EE, KAIST) – Seungyeop Han (grad student, UW)
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