Twitter Social Circles
A Twitter (ego-networks) dataset of 81,306 nodes and 1,768,149 edges, collected by McAuley & Leskovec via Twitter public crawl (2012). Each record contains directed user-user follow edges and ego-network circles. The dataset is notable for its directed ego-network dataset with ground-truth social circles. Intended for research into social network analysis, influence propagation, and community detection.
Cite this dataset at
ego-twitter.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 81,306 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
ego-twitter- Authors
- McAuley, Julian; Leskovec, J.
- Year
- 2012
- Source paper
- Learning to Discover Social Circles in Ego Networks
- License
- SNAP (Stanford Network Analysis Project) — Academic use (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
- Records
- 81,306
- Nodes
- 81,306
- Edges
- 1,768,149 (directed)
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- follow
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2012 (2010s)
- 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/ego-Twitter.html link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-21, 31.4 MB across 2 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
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{mcauley2012,
title = {Learning to Discover Social Circles in Ego Networks},
author = {McAuley, Julian and Leskovec, J.},
year = {2012},
booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
McAuley, J., & Leskovec, J. (2012). Twitter Social Circles [Data set]. https://ego-twitter.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
McAuley, Julian, and J. Leskovec. Twitter Social Circles. 2012, ego-twitter.echo.directory/.