Facebook WOSN Social Network
A Facebook dataset of 817,035 edges, collected by Network Repository. Each record contains user-user friendships. Facebook social graph from WOSN. Suitable for social network analysis, community detection.
Cite this dataset at
facebook-wosn.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 63,731 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
facebook_wosn- Authors
- Viswanath, Bimal; Mislove, Alan; Cha, Meeyoung; Gummadi, Krishna P.
- Year
- 2009
- Source paper
- On the evolution of user interaction in Facebook
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1145/1592665.1592675
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 817,035
- Nodes
- 63,731
- Edges
- 817,035
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- friendship
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2014 (2010s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://networkrepository.com/facebook-wosn-links.php link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 4.3 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
On the evolution of user interaction in Facebook
Bimal Viswanath, A. Mislove, Meeyoung Cha, Krishna P. Gummadi
Journal Article · Workshop on Online Social Networks · 2009
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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{Viswanath_2009,
series = {SIGCOMM ’09},
title = {On the evolution of user interaction in Facebook},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1592665.1592675},
doi = {10.1145/1592665.1592675},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Online social networks},
publisher = {ACM},
author = {Viswanath, Bimal and Mislove, Alan and Cha, Meeyoung and Gummadi, Krishna P.},
year = {2009},
month = Aug,
pages = {37–42},
collection = {SIGCOMM ’09}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Viswanath, B., Mislove, A., Cha, M., & Gummadi, K. P. (2009). Facebook WOSN Social Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1145/1592665.1592675
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Viswanath, Bimal, et al. Facebook WOSN Social Network. 2009, doi.org/10.1145/1592665.1592675.