YouTube User Network (2008)
A YouTube dataset of 2,139,109 users with 38,047,355 uploads and 40,088,341 friend relationships, collected by Cheng et al. via YouTube API (2007-2008). Each record contains user ID, number of uploaded videos, number of friends/subscriptions. YouTube user network from 2008 capturing user activity and friendship patterns during the platform's early growth period. Suitable for social network analysis, user behavior analysis, influencer identification, community detection.
Cite this dataset at
youtube-users-2008.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 2,139,109 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
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Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 2.1M records; topic model from 20K.
Record
- Catalog key
youtube-users-2008- Authors
- Cheng, Xu; Dale, Cameron; Liu, Jiangchuan
- Year
- 2008
- Source paper
- Statistics and Social Network of YouTube Videos
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1109/iwqos.2008.32
- License
- Academic use only (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
- Records
- 2,139,109
- Nodes
- 2,139,109
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- friendship
- Attributes
- nodes have attributes; edges have no attributes
- Text corpus
- user metadata
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2008 (2000s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://netsg.cs.sfu.ca/youtubedata/ link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 34.8 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}
}
@inproceedings{cheng2008statistics,
title = {Statistics and social network of youtube videos},
author = {Cheng, Xu and Dale, Cameron and Liu, Jiangchuan},
booktitle = {2008 16th International Workshop on Quality of Service},
pages = {229-238},
year = {2008},
organization = {IEEE}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Cheng, X., Dale, C., & Liu, J. (2008). YouTube User Network (2008) [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1109/iwqos.2008.32
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Cheng, Xu, et al. YouTube User Network (2008). 2008, doi.org/10.1109/iwqos.2008.32.