The follow relationship model of social networks: Construction and visualization

With the development of social networks, researches on user relationship have become an important issue. A precise mathematical model of user relationship has been built based on the follow relationship of network users. The quantified algorithm considering the interaction of multilayered relationship among users has been designed. The visualization methods of the model have been proposed. The follow relationship has been quantified to distance, through which the diagrams were draw to show the multilayered relationship. The diagrams were then enclosed to a polyhedron according to the projection relationship. The user relationship was quantified and shown with visualized distance, which provides a new way to research on social relationships.