Characterization of FriendFeed — A Web-based Social Aggregation Service

Authors

  • Trinabh Gupta Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
  • Sanchit Garg Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
  • Anirban Mahanti National ICT Limited of Australia (NICTA)
  • Niklas Carlsson University of Calgary, Canada
  • Martin Arlitt HP Labs, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v3i1.13984

Keywords:

Social Media and Mainstream Media , Social Network Theory , Data acquisition , Friendfeed , Social Aggregation

Abstract

Many Web users have accounts with multiple different social networking services. This scenario has prompted development of "social aggregation" services such as FriendFeed that aggregate the information available through various services. Using five weeks of activity of more than 100,000 FriendFeed users, we consider questions such as what types of services users aggregate content from, the relative popularity of services, who follows the aggregated content feeds, and why.

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Published

2009-03-20

How to Cite

Gupta, T., Garg, S., Mahanti, A., Carlsson, N., & Arlitt, M. (2009). Characterization of FriendFeed — A Web-based Social Aggregation Service. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 3(1), 218-221. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v3i1.13984

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2009): Third International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Section

Poster Papers