Higgs Boson Twitter Reply Network
A Twitter dataset of 38,918 users and 32,523 directed, weighted reply edges (36,902 replies in all), collected by De Domenico et al. via the Twitter Streaming API around the Higgs boson announcement, 1-7 July 2012. Each record holds the replying user ID, the replied-to user ID and the number of replies between them. Complements the Higgs retweet and mention networks from the same collection. Suitable for information diffusion, scientific communication on social media and reply network structure.
Cite this dataset at
higgs-reply.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 38,918 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
higgs-reply- 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
- Academic use (SNAP — Stanford Network Analysis Project) (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
- Records
- 38,918
- Nodes
- 38,918
- Edges
- 32,523 (directed)
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- reply
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2012-07-01 to 2012-07-07 (2010s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://snap.stanford.edu/data/higgs-twitter.html link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 198.3 KB across 1 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
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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}
}
@article{dedomenico2013higgs,
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},
pages = {2980},
year = {2013},
doi = {10.1038/srep02980}
} 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). Higgs Boson Twitter Reply Network [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. Higgs Boson Twitter Reply Network. 2013, doi.org/10.1038/srep02980.