Research Article

A Comparison of Online Social Networks and Real-Life Social Networks: A Study of Sina Microblogging

Table 2

Small-World property compared with different social networks.

Social networkAverage path length Clustering coefficient

Sina Microblogging2.7940.374
Random network4.1620.006
Cyworld [19]3.20.16
Renren [20]3.480.2
Mixi [21]5.530.1215
Co-author network [22]4.60.066