Network level footprints of facebook applications

Published 4 November 2009

Atif Nazir, Saqib Raza, Dhruv Gupta, Chen‐Nee Chuah, Balachander Krishnamurthy

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This is the first and only known study of popular third-party applications on OSNs at this depth, and insights help provide guidelines for OSNs and application developers.

Abstract

With over half a billion users, Online Social Networks (OSNs) are the major new applications on the Internet. Little information is available on the network impact of OSNs, although there is every expectation that the volume and diversity of traffic due to OSNs is set to explode. In this paper, we examine the specific role played by a key component of OSNs: the extremely popular and widespread set of third-party applications on some of the most popular OSNs. With over 81,000 third-party applications on Facebook alone, their impact is hard to predict and even harder to study.

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