{"id":24015755,"date":"2008-08-03T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/2008\/08\/03\/Planetary-Scale-Views-on-a-Large-Instant-Messaging-Network\/"},"modified":"2009-02-12T10:18:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T10:18:35","slug":"Planetary-Scale-Views-on-a-Large-Instant-Messaging-Network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=24015755","title":{"rendered":"Planetary-Scale Views on a Large Instant-Messaging Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='sustuff'>Stumbleupon Review of : <a href='http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/~horvitz\/Messenger_graph_www.htm'>http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/~horvitz\/Messenger_graph_www.htm<\/a><a href='http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/click_redir.php?t=4993bddea33c5&#038;src=blog&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fresearch.microsoft.com%2F%7Ehorvitz%2FMessenger_graph_www.htm'><img src='http:\/\/bunty.tv\/images\/smallstumble.png'><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img src=\"http:\/\/img204.imageshack.us\/img204\/5295\/crosstabbedru5.png\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul style=\"display : block; margin : 15px 30px 20px 30px; padding : 10px 10px 10px 20px; border-left : 2px solid #aaa; font : normal 1.2em Lucida Casual, Helvetica; color : #888;width : 650px; background : #111;\"><b>Planetary-Scale Views on a Large Instant-Messaging Network<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We present a study of anonymized data capturing a month of high-level communication activities within the whole of the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging system. We examine characteristics and patterns that emerge from the collective dynamics of large numbers of people, rather than the actions and characteristics of individuals. The dataset contains summary properties of 30 billion conversations among 240 million people. From the data, we construct a communication graph with 180 million nodes and 1.3 billion undirected edges, creating the largest social network constructed and analyzed to date. We report on multiple aspects of the dataset and synthesized graph. We find that the graph is well-connected and robust to node removal. We investigate on a planetary-scale the oft-cited report that people are separated by \u00e2\u20acoesix degrees of separation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and find that the average path length among Messenger users is 6.6. We find that people tend to communicate more with each other when they have similar age, language, and location, and that cross-gender conversations are both more frequent and of longer duration than conversations with the same gender.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbleupon Review of : http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/~horvitz\/Messenger_graph_www.htm Planetary-Scale Views on a Large Instant-Messaging Network We present a study of anonymized data capturing a month of high-level communication activities within the whole of the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging system. We examine characteristics and patterns &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=24015755\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[],"tags":[271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24015755"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24015755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24015755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24015755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24015755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24015755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}