Catster Social Network
A Catster dataset of 149,700 users, 5,449,275 friendships, collected by Catster website (catster.com). Each record contains undirected edges between Catster users representing friendships among cat owners and cat lovers. Catster social network capturing friendships in a niche social networking site for cat owners, cat lovers, and pet enthusiasts. Suitable for social network analysis, community detection, niche social media studies, pet owner behavior analysis.
Cite this dataset at
catster.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 149,700 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
catster- Authors
- Catster
- Year
- 2008
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1145/2740908.2745936
- License
- See source page for citation/usage terms.
- Records
- 149,700
- Nodes
- 149,700
- Edges
- 5,449,275
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- friendship
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- ~2008-2012 (2000s, 2010s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://networkrepository.com/soc-catster.php link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 53.5 MB across 2 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
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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}
}
@misc{soc-catster,
author = {Catster},
title = {Catster social network},
note = {http://www.catster.com}
}
@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
Catster (2008). Catster Social Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1145/2740908.2745936
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Catster. Catster Social Network. 2008, doi.org/10.1145/2740908.2745936.