Evaluating status and value assortativity in Threads

The concept of assortativity in complex networks indicates the preference of a node to relate to other nodes that are somewhat similar. It is possible to think of different forms of similarity between nodes that can give rise to different forms of assortativity. In this paper, along the lines of homophily (of which assortativity can be seen as a special case), we define two categories of assortativity, namely status assortativity and value assortativity. We then show that all definitions of assortativity introduced in the past belong to one of the two categories. Afterwards, we define and evaluate two forms of status assortativity and one form of value assortativity in Threads. Since this social network is relatively new, we could not use existing datasets related to it, and therefore had to build one from scratch, which we now make available to all interested researchers