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Analyzing and Securing Social Networks
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Analyzing and Securing Social Networks

by Bhavani Thuraisingham, Satyen Abrol, Raymond Heatherly, Murat Kantarcioglu, Vaibhav Khadilkar, Latifur Khan
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
604 pages
25h 38m
English
Auerbach Publications
Content preview from Analyzing and Securing Social Networks
109Developments and Challenges in Location Mining
We make several interesting observations that distinguish Twitter from other OSNs like Facebook
and LiveJournal:
• A link from A to B (A following B) does not always mean there is an edge from B to A (B
follows A back).
• A link from A to B (A following B), unlike Facebook or LinkedIn, does not always indicate
friendship, but sometimes means that A is interested in the messages posted by B.
• If A has a public prole (which is true for a large majority of proles), then he or she has
little control over who follows him or her.
• Twitter is a popular OSN used by celebrities (large follower-to-fo ...
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ISBN: 9781482243284