Syracuse University ยท Data Lab

๐• Twitter

Twitter is a social news website. It can be viewed as a hybrid of email, instant messaging and sms messaging all rolled into one neat and simple package. It's a new and easy way to discover the latest news related to subjects you care about.

11.3M
Nodes
85.3M
Edges
7.5
Avg Degree
No
Missing
Network Statistics
11.3M
Total Nodes
85.3M
Total Edges
7.5
Avg Degree
Social Network
Category
Size Relative to Repository Maximum
Nodes
11.3M
Edges
85.3M
Nodes & Edges โ€” Repository Comparison
Highlighted bar = this dataset. Logarithmic scale.
Edge-to-Node Ratio
Network density indicator
Dataset Details

Dataset Information

1. nodes.csv
-- it's the file of all the users. This file works as a dictionary of all the users in this data set. It's useful for fast reference. It contains
all the node ids used in the dataset

2. edges.csv
-- this is the friendship/followership network among the users. The friends/followers are represented using edges. Edges are directed.
Here is an example.

1,2

This means user with id "1" is followering user with id "2".

Attribute Information

Twitter is a social news website. It can be viewed as a hybrid of email, instant messaging and sms messaging all rolled into one neat and simple package. It's a new and easy way to discover the latest news related to subjects you care about.

-. Basic statistics
Number of Nodes: 11,316,811
Number of Edges: 85,331,846
How to Cite
If you publish material based on data from this repository, please acknowledge the Data Lab Social Computing Data Repository at Syracuse University in your acknowledgements. This helps others find and replicate your work.

APA Format

R. Zafarani and H. Liu. (2026). Social Computing Data Repository [https://datasets.syr.edu]. Data Lab, Syracuse University.
@misc{Data Lab:SU,
  author       = {R. Zafarani and H. Liu},
  year         = {2026},
  title        = {Social Computing Data Repository},
  url          = {https://datasets.syr.edu},
  institution  = {Data Lab, Syracuse University}
}