Behavior of users on online social services is characterized using heavy-tailed distribution. The assumption in heavytailed distribution is that few users are responsible for most of the variation. In this paper, users characterized using heavytailed distribution are further characterized according to their activity on the online social service. Further, this characterization of behavior is shown to have similar properties as a trigonometric function, .
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