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From: Limitations of time resources in human relationships determine social structures

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Increasing communication volumes per day v by strengths of social relationships d, where the volumes were number of characters per day in Twitter, 755 and Ameba Pigg, duration per day in mobile phones and frequency of messaging per day in SMS because we did not consider any information regarding number of characters in the SMS data set. The orange lines are the 25th percentile, the green and dotted lines are the 50th percentile and the blue and dashed lines are the 75th percentile. These are shown for cases where the number of samples was more than 20 (the ranges of the d of mobile phone and SMS are short because these were smaller data sets). (a) Twitter, (b) 755 group chat, (c) 755 wall communication, (d) Ameba Pigg, (e) Mobile phone, (f) SMS.

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