Paper Info
Title
A characterization of short-video and distributed hot-spot activity in Instagram.
Abstract
Social networks like Instagram and Vine encourage the generation and consumption of user generated content (UGC) on a large scale. In this paper, we crawl the Instagram social network in two waves. First, we seek to characterize the composition of short-video streams on the Instagram network in terms of audio/video codecs used, file sizes, ratio of images to videos in Instagram and playout times among other features. Two, we further study the use of Instagram in five diverse geographic locations, or \"hot-spots\": Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus in London, UK; Tour Eiffel in Paris, France; Statue of Liberty in New York, USA; and World War II Memorial in Washington D.C., USA. In this crawl, we focus on user characteristics across the hot-spots: How many users are active in the hot-spots? What is the inter-arrival rate of upload requests per user at the hot-spots? What is the composition of media objects? Overall, our aim is to analyze the data to determine short video composition and detect commonality among the user population at these hot-spots and emergent signs of synchronicity across time zones where the hot-spots are located.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2843491.2843901
IPTComm
Field
DocType
Citations 
User-generated content,Population,Social network,Computer science,Computer security,Upload,Synchronicity,Multimedia,Eiffel,Codec
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vijay K. Gurbani127834.36
Angelo Migliosi231.43
Radu State362386.87
Charles Payette400.34
Bruce Cilli501.01
Thomas Engel645542.34