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WOSN 2012 Proceedings

Stefan Saroiu, Ben Zhao (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Online Social Networks, WOSN'12, co-located with SIGCOMM'12, August 17, 2012, Helsinki, Finland. ACM 2012, ISBN 978-1-4503-1480-0.

Table of Contents

Welcome Message From the WOSN TPC Co-Chairs
Stefan Saroiu (Microsoft Research)
Ben Zhao (University of California at Santa Barbara)

WOSN 2012 Workshop Organization

WOSN 2012 Author Index

Session 1: Share at Your Own Risk
Session Chair: Krishna P. Gummadi (MPI-SWS)

Poultry Markets: On the Underground Economy of Twitter Followers  (Page 1)
Gianluca Stringhini (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Manuel Egele (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Christopher Kruegel (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Giovanni Vigna (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Big Friend is Watching You: Analyzing Online Social Networks Tracking Capabilities  (Page 7)
Abdelberi Chaabane (INRIA)
Mohamed Ali Kaafar (INRIA & National ICT Australia)
Roksana Boreli (National ICT Australia & University of New South Wales)

A Workflow for Differentially-Private Graph Synthesis  (Page 13)
Davide Proserpio (Boston University)
Sharon Goldberg (Boston University)
Frank McSherry (Microsoft Research)

Session 2: Locked in a Long-Distance Relationship
Session Chair: James Salter (Government Communications HQ)

Far from the Eyes, Close on the Web: Impact of Geographic Distance on Online Social Interactions  (Page 19)
Andreas Kaltenbrunner (Barcelona Media Foundation)
Salvatore Scellato (University of Cambridge)
Yana Volkovich (Barcelona Media Foundation)
David Laniado (Barcelona Media Foundation)
Dave Currie (Tuenti)
Erik J. Jutemar (Tuenti)
Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)

Coarse-Grained Topology Estimation via Graph Sampling  (Page 25)
Maciej Kurant (ETH Zurich)
Minas Gjoka (University of California, Irvine)
Yan Wang (University of California, Irvine)
Zack W. Almquist (University of California, Irvine)
Carter T. Butts (University of California, Irvine)
Athina Markopoulou (University of California, Irvine)

The Importance of Being Placefriends: Discovering Location-focused Online Communities  (Page 31)
Chloë Brown (University of Cambridge)
Vincenzo Nicosia (University of Cambridge)
Salvatore Scellato (University of Cambridge)
Anastasios Noulas (University of Cambridge)
Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)

Session 3: Do your Servers Social Network?
Session Chair: Walter Willinger (AT&T Labs - Research)

Shortest Paths in Less Than a Millisecond  (Page 37)
Rachit Agarwal (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Matthew Caesar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
P. Brighten Godfrey (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Ben Y. Zhao (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Navigation Characteristics of Online Social Networks and Search Engines Users  (Page 43)
Christopher W. Dunn (Indiana University)
Minaxi Gupta (Indiana University)
Alexandre Gerber (AT&T Labs - Research)
Oliver Spatscheck (AT&T Labs - Research)

Keeping Information Safe from Social Networking Apps  (Page 49)
Bimal Viswanath (MPI-SWS)
Emre Kiciman (Microsoft Research)
Stefan Saroiu (Microsoft Research)

Session 4: Think Before You Post
Session Chair: Sue Moon (KAIST)

Inferring Who-Is-Who in the Twitter Social Network  (Page 55)
Naveen Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Saptarshi Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Fabricio Benevenuto (Federal University of Ouro Preto)
Niloy Ganguly (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Krishna Gummadi (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)

Why Watching Movie Tweets Won't Tell the Whole Story?  (Page 61)
Felix Ming Fai Wong (Princeton University)
Soumya Sen (Princeton University)
Mung Chiang (Princeton University)

Is More Always Merrier? A Deep Dive into Online Social Footprints  (Page 67)
Terence Chen (National ICT Australia/University of New South Wales, Australia)
Mohamed Ali Kaafar (National ICT Australia/INRIA, France)
Arik Friedman (National ICT Australia)
Roksana Boreli (National ICT Australia/University of New South Wales, Australia)