Like, Comment, Repin: User Interaction on Pinterest

We present the results of a study of the Pinterest activity graph. Pinterest is a relatively new and extremely popular content-based social network. Building on a body of work showing that the hidden network whose edges are actual interactions between users is more informative about social relationships than the follower-following network, we study the activity graph composed of links formed by liking, commenting, and repinning, and show that it is very different from the follow network. We collect data about 14 million pins, 7 million repins, 1.6 million likes, and several hundred thousand users and report interesting results about social activity on Pinterest. In particular, we discover that only 12.3% of a user’s followers interact with their pins, and over 70% of activity on each user’s boards is done by non-followers, but on average, followers who are active perform twice as many actions as non-followers.