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Social Resilience in Online Communities: The Autopsy of Friendster — mentioned by jonathankoren

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:05:44 GMT

Putting aside the dubious methodology behind that metric, I’d like to point out that’s precisely the wrong metric to be paying attention to. You need to look at the traffic and retention numbers of the power users, and better yet the critical users in the social graph. Power user traffic has declined 25% since Elon. The reason why this number is more important than overall user growth, is because social networks don’t decline, they chug along, until the collapse all at once, like a bridge with a key support knocked out. By studying the collapse look of Friendster, MySpace, Snap (which…

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Social Resilience in Online Communities: The Autopsy of Friendster — HN submission

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 22:30:15 GMT

Social Resilience in Online Communities: The Autopsy of Friendster

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Social Resilience in Online Communities: The Autopsy of Friendster — mentioned by esalazar

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:19:17 GMT

Link to full PDF, http://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.6109v1.pdf

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Social Resilience in Online Communities: The Autopsy of Friendster — HN submission

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:02:01 GMT

Social Resilience in Online Communities: The Autopsy of Friendster

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Social Resilience in Online Communities: The Autopsy of Friendster — HN submission

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:19:25 GMT

The Autopsy of Friendster [pdf]

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