Publication: Qingyuan Gong, Yang Chen, Jiyao Hu, Qiang Cao, Pan Hui, Xin Wang. Understanding Cross-site Linking in Online Social Networks. ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), 2018, 12(4):25:1-25:29. (full citation below)

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This dataset covers 61.39 million Foursquare users, including all their profile information fields shown on their homepages, the statistical counts of their activities, and the social graph.

• profile.tar.gz: the profile information and activity statistics of all Foursquare users.

Each line in Foursquare_profile.txt is an entry of user's information, including her demographic information fields, and the statistics of her activities. For each line, the format is:

[Anonymized UID, number of followings, number of followers, number of tips, number of checkins, gender (m: male, f: female, -: none), has_lastname (1: yes, 0: no), has_bio (1:yes, 0: no), has_photo (1: yes, 0: no), is_superuser (1: yes, 0: no), linked to Facebook (1: yes, 0: no), linked to Twitter (1: yes, 0: no), is_early_user (1:early user, 0: non-early user), location]

For example, an entry

[358, 12, 14, 1, 185, "m", 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, "New York, NY"]

shows that the user has an anonymized ID of 358, has 12 followings and 14 followers, has left 1 tips and conducted 185 check-ins. He is a male user, and has filled his lastname into the information field. He has not filled in the biography field. He has uploaded a photo. He is not a superuser of Foursquare. He has linked to Facebook and Twitter accounts. He is an early user. Finally, his location is New York, NY.

• Foursquare_Graph.tar.gz: the social graph of all Foursquare users

There are two files in Foursquare_Graph.tar.gz. One is node.csv, the other is edges.csv.

Each line of node.csv represents an anonymized user ID of a Foursquare user.

Each line in edges.csv represents a directed edge of the Foursquare network.

For example, in a line

23,24

We can conclude that user 23 follows user 24. 23 and 24 are the anonymized IDs of the two users.

@article{Gong_CrossOSN18,
author={Qingyuan Gong and Yang Chen and Jiyao Hu and Qiang Cao and Pan Hui and Xin Wang},
title={{Understanding Cross-site Linking in Online Social Networks}},
journal={ACM Transactions on the Web},
year={2018},
volume = {12},
number = {4},
pages = {25:1--25:29},
}