Hyves Friendship Network (December 2010)
A Hyves (Dutch social network) dataset of 1,402,673 users and 2,777,419 friendship edges (avg degree 2.0), collected by Mahsa Mojtahedi via Hyves crawl (December 2010). Each record contains user-user friendship edges and user IDs. The dataset is notable for its very sparse friendship network from Hyves, the most popular social networking site in the Netherlands, competing with Facebook and MySpace. Intended for research into social network analysis, community detection, sparse network studies, and regional social media platform structure research.
Cite this dataset at
hyves.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 1,402,673 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
hyves- Authors
- Mojtahedi, Mahsa; Zafarani, R.; Liu, H.
- Year
- 2010
- Source paper
- Hyves Friendship Network Dataset
- License
- Academic Use (see Syracuse Data Lab terms) (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
- Records
- 1,402,673
- Nodes
- 1,402,673
- Edges
- 2,777,419
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- friendship
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- nl
- Collected
- December 2010 (2010s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Netherlands · Europe (inferred: named in the description)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://datasets.syr.edu link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 45.5 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{mojtahedi2010hyves,
title = {{Hyves Friendship Network Dataset}},
author = {Mojtahedi, Mahsa 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
Mojtahedi, M., Zafarani, R., & Liu, H. (2010). Hyves Friendship Network (December 2010) [Data set]. https://hyves.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Mojtahedi, Mahsa, et al. Hyves Friendship Network (December 2010). 2010, hyves.echo.directory/.