Online Social Networks: Human Cognitive Constraints in Facebook and Twitter provides new
insights into the structural properties of personal online social networks and the mechanisms
underpinning human online social behavior. As the availability of digital communication data
generated by social media is revolutionizing the field of social networks analysis the text
discusses the use of large- scale datasets to study the structural properties of online ego
networks to compare them with the properties of general human social networks and to
highlight additional properties. Users will find the data collected and conclusions drawn
useful during design or research service initiatives that involve online and mobile social
network environments.
