gab_users_fair — Gab follower network (2019)

Description

The follower network of the users of Gab, a microblogging platform popular with the alt-right, from the database of Fair and Wesslen, who scraped the profiles of the users of Gab, with their lists of followers and followings, from January to February 2019 (the profiles of the users created from August 2016 to December 2018). A directed edge from user u to user v means that u follows v; the edges are the union of the lists of followers and followings of the 757,363 scraped users (each relation once). For some users, the lists were not scraped completely (followers_complete or following_complete false); the follower lists of 135,630 users and the following lists of 121,331 users are incomplete. The users that appear only in the lists of others are included, with the profile attributes given in the lists (including their display names and biographies). The data contain no phone numbers or e-mail addresses.

The posts described by Fair and Wesslen (35.9 million) are not in the published data. Left out are the profile pictures and cover images of the users, and the separate list of usernames. Another crawl of Gab, of 2018, with posts, is the entry gab_followers.

The network has the following properties:

(Node) user_id: the id of the user on Gab.
(Node) username.
(Node) display_name: the name shown on the profile.
(Node) bio: the biography of the profile (empty if none).
(Node) has_record: whether the user's profile was scraped (otherwise the user only appears in the lists of others).
(Node) created: the month of creation of the account (Unix time of its first day; -1 if unknown).
(Node) follower_count, following_count and post_count: as shown on the profile (-1 if unknown).
(Node) score (-1 if unknown).
(Node) verified, is_pro, is_donor, is_investor, is_premium, is_tippable, is_private and is_accessible: the flags of the account (1 or 0; -1 if unknown).
(Node) collected: the time when the profile was scraped (Unix time; -1 for users not scraped).
(Node) followers_complete and following_complete: whether the lists of followers and followings of the user were scraped completely (1 or 0; -1 if unknown).
(Edge) in_followers and in_following: whether the relation is in the list of followers of v, and in the list of followings of u.

Tags

Social Online Political Unweighted Metadata

Added

2026-10-31

Citation

G. Fair, R. Wesslen, "Shouting into the Void: A Database of the Alternative Social Media Platform Gab." Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 13, 608-610 (2019) 10.1609/icwsm.v13i01.3258 Sci-Hub

Upstream URL OK

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2541324

Upstream license

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Networks

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Column legend

$\left<k\right>$: Mean degree
$\sigma_k$: Standard deviation of the degrees
$\lambda_h$: Largest eigenvalue of the Hashimoto (non-backtracking) matrix
$\tau$: Random walk mixing time
$r$: Degree assortativity
$c$: Global clustering coefficient
$\oslash$: (Pseudo-) diameter
$S$: Relative size of the largest component
NPs: Node properties
EPs: Edge properties

Name	Nodes	Edges	$\left<k\right>$	$\sigma_k$	$\lambda_h$	$\tau$	$r$	$c$	$\oslash$	$S$	Kind	Mode	NPs	EPs	gt	GraphML	GML	csv
gab_users_fair	825,365	38,719,518	46.91	1258.30	2739.66	52.21	-0.12	0.03	9	1.00	Directed	Unipartite	user_id username display_name bio has_record created follower_count following_count post_count score verified is_pro is_donor is_investor is_premium is_tippable is_private is_accessible collected followers_complete following_complete	in_followers in_following	71.3 MiB	164.7 MiB	159.2 MiB	147.2 MiB