Twitter: Network properties analysis

Online Social Networks have had a fast growing since the popularization of Web 2.0. This kind of networks provides the basis to find and maintain social relationships with users having diverse interests as well as a current picture of things happening around them. The analysis of the graph structure is necessary to understand the impact of online social networks among people, design better systems, and indirectly measure the Internet expansion. This paper presents a general background of network dynamics and structure, then the social network Twitter is described and classified. Related work is analyzed showing that potential research opportunities might be found in online social network dynamics and suggesting Twitter as a good exercise to perform measurements.