LiveJournal Social Network
A LiveJournal (blogging and social network platform) dataset of 4,846,609 nodes and 68,475,391 edges, collected by J. Leskovec et al. via LiveJournal API. Each record contains directed: True, weighted: False, temporal: False. Large directed LiveJournal friendship network with 4.3M users and 69M edges — one of the largest social network datasets from the Web 2.0 era.. Suitable for large-scale social network analysis, community detection, information diffusion.
Cite this dataset at
soc-livejournal.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 4,846,609 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
livejournal1- Authors
- Leskovec, Jure; Lang, Kevin J.; Dasgupta, Anirban; Mahoney, Michael W.
- Year
- 2008
- Source paper
- Statistical properties of community structure in large social and information networks
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1145/1367497.1367591
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 4,846,609
- Nodes
- 4,846,609
- Edges
- 68,475,391 (directed)
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- friendship
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- 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://konect.cc/networks/soc-LiveJournal1/ unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 266.5 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
Statistical properties of community structure in large social and information networks
J. Leskovec, K. Lang, A. Dasgupta, Michael W. Mahoney
Journal Article · The Web Conference · 2008
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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{Leskovec_2008,
series = {WWW ’08},
title = {Statistical properties of community structure in large social and information networks},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1367497.1367591},
doi = {10.1145/1367497.1367591},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web},
publisher = {ACM},
author = {Leskovec, Jure and Lang, Kevin J. and Dasgupta, Anirban and Mahoney, Michael W.},
year = {2008},
month = Apr,
pages = {695–704},
collection = {WWW ’08}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Leskovec, J., Lang, K. J., Dasgupta, A., & Mahoney, M. W. (2008). LiveJournal Social Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1145/1367497.1367591
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Leskovec, Jure, et al. LiveJournal Social Network. 2008, doi.org/10.1145/1367497.1367591.