Twitter (WWW)

This is the follower network from Twitter, containing 1.4 billion directed follow edges between 41 million Twitter users.

Metadata

CodeTW
Internal nametwitter
NameTwitter (WWW)
Data sourcehttp://an.kaist.ac.kr/traces/WWW2010.html
AvailabilityDataset is available for download
Consistency checkCheck was not executed
Category
Online social network
Dataset timestamp 2006 ⋯ 2010
Node meaningUser
Edge meaningFollowing
Network formatUnipartite, directed
Edge typeUnweighted, no multiple edges
ReciprocalContains reciprocal edges
Directed cyclesContains directed cycles
LoopsDoes not contain loops
Snapshot Is a snapshot and likely to not contain all data
Connectedness Only the largest connected component of the original data is included

Statistics

Size n =41,652,230
Volume m =1,468,365,182
Loop count l =298
Wedge count s =123,435,589,564,841
Triangle count t =34,824,916,864
Maximum degree dmax =3,081,112
Maximum outdegree d+max =770,155
Maximum indegree dmax =2,997,469
Average degree d =70.506 0
Size of LCC N =41,652,230
Diameter δ =23
50-Percentile effective diameter δ0.5 =3.076 70
90-Percentile effective diameter δ0.9 =3.973 28
Mean distance δm =3.549 32
Clustering coefficient c =0.000 846 391
Operator 2-norm ν =6,279.11
Reciprocity y =0.362 106
Non-bipartivity bA =0.319 460

Plots

Cumulative degree distribution

Spectral graph drawing based on the adjacency matrix

Hop distribution

In/outdegree scatter plot

Matrix decompositions plots

Downloads

References

[1] Jérôme Kunegis. KONECT – The Koblenz Network Collection. In Proc. Int. Conf. on World Wide Web Companion, pages 1343–1350, 2013. [ http ]
[2] Haewoon Kwak, Changhyun Lee, Hosung Park, and Sue Moon. What is Twitter, a social network or a news media? In Proc. Int. World Wide Web Conf., pages 591–600, 2010.