Twitter Higgs Network (2012)
A Twitter dataset of 456,631 users, 14,855,875 follow/mention edges, collected by De Domenico et al. (2013) via Twitter API around Higgs boson announcement (July 4, 2012). Each record contains directed edges between Twitter users representing follows or mentions, capturing information propagation during a major scientific announcement. Temporal network capturing information spreading around the Higgs boson discovery announcement, enabling study of scientific rumor propagation and information cascades in real-time social media. Suitable for information propagation, rumor dynamics, temporal network analysis, scientific communication studies, social media epidemiology.
Cite this dataset at
twitter-higgs.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 456,631 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
twitter-higgs- Authors
- De Domenico, Manlio; Lima, Antonio; Mougel, Paul; Musolesi, Mirco
- Year
- 2013
- Source paper
- The anatomy of a scientific rumor
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1038/srep02980
- License
- See source page for citation/usage terms.
- Records
- 456,631
- Nodes
- 456,631
- Edges
- 14,855,875 (directed)
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- follow / mention
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2012-07 (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-twitter-higgs.php link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 184.3 MB across 2 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
The Anatomy of a Scientific Rumor
M. De Domenico, A. Lima, P. Mougel, Mirco Musolesi
Journal Article · Scientific Reports · 2013
Cited by
- The spread of true and false news online
S. Vosoughi, Deb K. Roy et al. · Science · 2018 · cited 8K× - Multilayer networks
M. Kivelä, A. Arenas et al. · J. Complex Networks · 2013 · cited 3.5K× - Robustness and resilience of complex networks
Oriol Artime, Marco Grassia et al. · Nature Reviews Physics · 2024 · cited 657× - DeepInf: Social Influence Prediction with Deep Learning
Jie-Zhong Qiu, Jian Tang et al. · Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining · 2018 · cited 640× - Representation Learning for Attributed Multiplex Heterogeneous Network
Yukuo Cen, Xu Zou et al. · Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining · 2019 · cited 499×
Show all 10
- Measuring user influence on Twitter: A survey
Fabián Riquelme, Pablo González-Cantergiani · Information Processing & Management · 2015 · cited 438× - CuSha: vertex-centric graph processing on GPUs
Farzad Khorasani, Keval Vora et al. · IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel Distributed Computing · 2014 · cited 285× - Scalable Multiplex Network Embedding
Hongming Zhang, Liwei Qiu et al. · International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2018 · cited 230× - A Time-Vertex Signal Processing Framework: Scalable Processing and Meaningful Representations for Time-Series on Graphs
Francesco Grassi, Andreas Loukas et al. · IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing · 2017 · cited 203× - Opinion leader detection: A methodological review
Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini Bamakan, I. Nurgaliev et al. · Expert systems with applications · 2019 · cited 195×
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}
}
@article{de2013anatomy,
title = {The anatomy of a scientific rumor},
author = {De Domenico, Manlio and Lima, Antonio and Mougel, Paul and Musolesi, Mirco},
journal = {Scientific reports},
volume = {3},
year = {2013},
publisher = {Nature Publishing Group}
}
@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
De Domenico, M., Lima, A., Mougel, P., & Musolesi, M. (2013). Twitter Higgs Network (2012) [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep02980
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
De Domenico, Manlio, et al. Twitter Higgs Network (2012). 2013, doi.org/10.1038/srep02980.