TY - GEN
T1 - What we instagram
T2 - 8th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2014
AU - Hu, Yuheng
AU - Manikonda, Lydia
AU - Kambhampati, Subbarao
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Instagram is a relatively new form of communication where users can easily share their updates by taking photos and tweaking them using filters. It has seen rapid growth in the number of users as well as uploads since it was launched in October 2010. In spite of the fact that it is the most popular photo capturing and sharing application, it has attracted relatively less attention from the research community. In this paper, we present both qualitative and quantitative analysis on Instagram. We use computer vision techniques to examine the photo content. Based on that, we identify the different types of active users on Instagram using clustering. Our results reveal several insights about Instagram which were never studied before, that include: 1) Eight popular photos categories, 2) Five distinct types of Instagram users in terms of their posted photos, and 3) A user's audience (number of followers) is independent of his/her shared photos on Instagram. To our knowledge, this is the first in-depth study of content and users on Instagram.
AB - Instagram is a relatively new form of communication where users can easily share their updates by taking photos and tweaking them using filters. It has seen rapid growth in the number of users as well as uploads since it was launched in October 2010. In spite of the fact that it is the most popular photo capturing and sharing application, it has attracted relatively less attention from the research community. In this paper, we present both qualitative and quantitative analysis on Instagram. We use computer vision techniques to examine the photo content. Based on that, we identify the different types of active users on Instagram using clustering. Our results reveal several insights about Instagram which were never studied before, that include: 1) Eight popular photos categories, 2) Five distinct types of Instagram users in terms of their posted photos, and 3) A user's audience (number of followers) is independent of his/her shared photos on Instagram. To our knowledge, this is the first in-depth study of content and users on Instagram.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84909957897
T3 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2014
SP - 595
EP - 598
BT - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2014
PB - The AAAI Press
Y2 - 1 June 2014 through 4 June 2014
ER -