Delicious Friendship Network (December 2010)
A Delicious (social bookmarking) dataset of 536,408 users and 1,366,663 friendship edges, collected by Aneeth Anand via Delicious crawl (December 2010). Each record contains user-user friendship edges and user IDs. The dataset is notable for its friendship network from the Delicious social bookmarking service, where users stored, shared, and discovered web bookmarks. Intended for research into social network analysis, community detection, information sharing behavior, and social bookmarking platform structure studies.
Cite this dataset at
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Analytics
The full graph has 536,408 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
delicious- Authors
- Anand, Aneeth; Zafarani, R.; Liu, H.
- Year
- 2010
- Source paper
- Delicious Social Bookmarking Friendship Network Dataset
- License
- Academic Use (see Syracuse Data Lab terms) (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
- Records
- 536,408
- Nodes
- 536,408
- Edges
- 1,366,663
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- friendship
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- December 2010 (2010s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://datasets.syr.edu link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 17.7 MB across 3 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}
}
@misc{anand2010delicious,
title = {{Delicious Social Bookmarking Friendship Network Dataset}},
author = {Anand, Aneeth and Zafarani, R. and Liu, H.},
year = {2010},
publisher = {Data Lab, Syracuse University},
url = {https://datasets.syr.edu}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Anand, A., Zafarani, R., & Liu, H. (2010). Delicious Friendship Network (December 2010) [Data set]. https://delicious.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Anand, Aneeth, et al. Delicious Friendship Network (December 2010). 2010, delicious.echo.directory/.