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Making social interactions accessible in online social networks
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have changed the way people use the internet.
Over the past few years these platforms have helped societies to organize riots
and revolutions such as the Arab Spring or the Occupying Movements. One key
fact in particular is how such events and organizations spread through out the
world with social interactions, though, not much research has been focused on
how to efficiently access such data and furthermore, make it available to
researchers. While everyone in the field of OSN research are using tools to
crawl this type of networks our approach differs significantly from the other
tools out there since we are getting all interactions related to every single
post. In this paper we show means of developing an efficient crawler that is
able to capture all social interactions on public communities on OSNs such as
Facebook