Buzznet Social Network
A Buzznet dataset of 101,163 users, 2,763,066 social connections, collected by Shakarian and Paulo (ASONAM 2012) via Buzznet platform. Each record contains undirected edges between Buzznet users representing social connections in the photo/music sharing community. Buzznet social network from a pop culture and entertainment focused social media platform where users share photos, music, and videos. Suitable for viral marketing, influence propagation, social network analysis, community detection, information diffusion in entertainment networks.
Cite this dataset at
buzznet.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 101,163 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
buzznet- Authors
- Shakarian, Paulo; Paulo, Damon
- Year
- 2012
- Source paper
- Large Social Networks Can Be Targeted for Viral Marketing with Small Seed Sets
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1109/asonam.2012.11
- License
- See source page for citation/usage terms.
- Records
- 101,163
- Nodes
- 101,163
- Edges
- 2,763,066
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- friendship
- 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://networkrepository.com/soc-buzznet.php link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 29.5 MB across 2 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
Large Social Networks Can Be Targeted for Viral Marketing with Small Seed Sets
Paulo Shakarian, Damon Paulo
Journal Article · 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining · 2012
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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{Shakarian:2012,
author = {Shakarian, Paulo and Paulo, Damon},
title = {Large Social Networks Can Be Targeted for Viral Marketing with Small Seed Sets},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012)},
year = {2012},
pages = {1--8},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}
}
@inproceedings{nr,
title = {The Network Data Repository with Interactive Graph Analytics and Visualization},
author = {Ryan A. Rossi and Nesreen K. Ahmed},
booktitle = {AAAI},
url = {https://networkrepository.com},
year = {2015}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Shakarian, P., & Paulo, D. (2012). Buzznet Social Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1109/asonam.2012.11
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Shakarian, Paulo, and Damon Paulo. Buzznet Social Network. 2012, doi.org/10.1109/asonam.2012.11.