YouTube Social Network Growth
A YouTube (user social network growth over time) dataset of 3,223,585 nodes and 9,375,374 edges, collected by A. Mislove et al. via YouTube API. Each record contains directed: False, weighted: True, temporal: True. Temporal undirected YouTube friendship network showing how the social graph grew over time — 9.4M edges with Unix timestamps.. Suitable for temporal network analysis, social network growth modeling, YouTube social dynamics.
Cite this dataset at
youtube-growth.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 3,223,585 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
youtube-growth- Authors
- Druschel, P.; Mislove, A.
- Year
- 2009
- Source paper
- Online social networks: measurement, analysis, and applications to distributed information systems
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 3,223,585
- Nodes
- 3,223,585
- Edges
- 9,375,374
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- friendship
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2009 (2000s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://konect.cc/networks/youtube-u-growth/ unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 41.9 MB across 1 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}
}
@book{druschel2009,
title = {Online social networks: measurement, analysis, and applications to distributed information systems},
author = {Druschel, P. and Mislove, A.},
year = {2009},
note = {PhD thesis, Rice Univ., 2009.}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Druschel, P., & Mislove, A. (2009). YouTube Social Network Growth [Data set]. https://youtube-growth.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Druschel, P., and A. Mislove. YouTube Social Network Growth. 2009, youtube-growth.echo.directory/.