Measurement and analysis of Shanghai Xinmin microblog website

Microblog is one of the most typical applications on Web 2.0 Internet. It enables its users to publish their own microblogs and also facilitates tracking microblogs of other users. There are many microblog websites on Internet, including Twitter, G+, Sina microblog, and Shanghai Xinmin. As huge numbers of users participate microblog websites, an ever-increasing scale of information is added into these websites. This paper measures Shanghai Xinmin microblog website, and reveals behavior of its users as well as corresponding social structure among its users.