DYNAMICS OF TIE STRENGTH FROM SOCIAL INTERACTION

摘要

Systems and methods for observing friendships and social interactions between users of online communication platforms and ranking the users of the platforms to indicate likelihood of a user responding to a communication are described herein. At least one embodiment includes calculating a degree of intimacy using a degree of reciprocity, affinity calculation, sentiment value, self-disclosure value, and/or responsiveness value derived from communications initiated by a first user of a platform and directed communications from a second user of the platform in response to communications initiated by the first user. Degree of intimacy may be leveraged to rank two or more users of the platform and the ranking may be leveraged to predict which of the two or more users is more likely to respond to a communication from the first user. Various graphical user interfaces capable of producing visualizations of user intimacy and views of communication platforms are also described.