TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring venue popularity in foursquare
AU - Li, Yanhua
AU - Steiner, Moritz
AU - Wang, Limin
AU - Zhang, Zhi-Li
AU - Bao, Jie
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In this paper, we provide a detailed analysis on the venue popularity in Foursquare, a leading location-based social network. By collecting 2.4 million venues from 14 geographic regions all over the world, we study the common characteristics of popular venues, and make the following observations. First, venues with more complete profile information are more likely to be popular. Second, venues in the Food category attract the most (43%) public tips (comments) by users, and the Travel & Transport category is the most popular category with the highest per venue check-ins, i.e., each venue in this category attracts on average 376 check-ins. Moreover, the stickiness of users checking in venues in the residence, office, and school categories is higher than in other categories. Last but not least, in general, old venues created at the early stage of Foursquare are more popular than new venues. Our results help to understand the factors that cause venues to become popular, and have applications in venue recommendations and advertisement in location based social networks.
AB - In this paper, we provide a detailed analysis on the venue popularity in Foursquare, a leading location-based social network. By collecting 2.4 million venues from 14 geographic regions all over the world, we study the common characteristics of popular venues, and make the following observations. First, venues with more complete profile information are more likely to be popular. Second, venues in the Food category attract the most (43%) public tips (comments) by users, and the Travel & Transport category is the most popular category with the highest per venue check-ins, i.e., each venue in this category attracts on average 376 check-ins. Moreover, the stickiness of users checking in venues in the residence, office, and school categories is higher than in other categories. Last but not least, in general, old venues created at the early stage of Foursquare are more popular than new venues. Our results help to understand the factors that cause venues to become popular, and have applications in venue recommendations and advertisement in location based social networks.
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U2 - 10.1109/INFCOMW.2013.6562896
DO - 10.1109/INFCOMW.2013.6562896
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84883018477
SN - 9781479900565
T3 - 2013 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2013
SP - 205
EP - 210
BT - 2013 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2013
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2013 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2013
Y2 - 14 April 2013 through 19 April 2013
ER -