YouTube Social Network
A YouTube (friendship network) dataset of 1,134,890 nodes and 2,987,624 edges, collected by Mislove et al. via YouTube crawl (2007). Each record contains user-user friendship edges and user-defined group communities. The dataset is notable for its large-scale YouTube friendship network with ground-truth communities. Intended for research into community detection, social network analysis, and group membership prediction.
Cite this dataset at
com-youtube.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 1,134,890 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
com-youtube- Authors
- Mislove, A.; Marcon, M.; Gummadi, K. P.; Draschler, P.; Bhattacharjee, B.
- Year
- 2007
- Source paper
- Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1145/1298306.1298311
- License
- SNAP (Stanford Network Analysis Project) — Academic use (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
- Records
- 1,134,890
- Nodes
- 1,134,890
- Edges
- 2,987,624
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- friendship
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2007 (2000s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://snap.stanford.edu/data/com-Youtube.html link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 10.3 MB across 2 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
Measurement and analysis of online social networks
A. Mislove, M. Marcon, Krishna P. Gummadi, P. Druschel, Bobby Bhattacharjee
Journal Article · ACM/SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference · 2007
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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-19.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@inproceedings{mislove2007measurement,
title = {Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks},
author = {Mislove, A. and Marcon, M. and Gummadi, K. P. and Draschler, P. and Bhattacharjee, B.},
booktitle = {IMC},
year = {2007}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Mislove, A., Marcon, M., Gummadi, K. P., Draschler, P., & Bhattacharjee, B. (2007). YouTube Social Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1145/1298306.1298311
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Mislove, A., et al. YouTube Social Network. 2007, doi.org/10.1145/1298306.1298311.