Easier contagion and weaker ties make anger spread faster than joy in social media

The two datasets are Weibo data which are used in paper named "Easier contagion and weaker ties make anger spread faster than joy in social media". (https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03656)<br>Any issues please feel free to contact Jichang Zhao through [e-mail].<br>The first dataset, named "users_data", includes 11,753,609 tweets posted by 92,176 users from Sep., 2014 to Mar., 2015. "tweets.txt" and "graph.txt" are the tweets with emotion label and the follow relationship of all users, respectively. In "graph.txt", every line is a following relation which contain two columns. The first item is the follower and the second is the followee. In "tweets.txt", each tweet is represented by three items which respectively are user's id, created time and emotion. If there is a "==&gt;" in the line, it means that this is a retweet and the tweet after "==&gt;" is the original one.<br>The second dataset, which is in the "event_tweets" directory, includes 40,005,242 tweets of 616 different events. Each file in the directory contains tweets that related to the the specific event. And tweets are represented by the created time and the emotion label.

本数据集包含两份微博数据，均出自论文《社交网络中传播更易、纽带更弱使愤怒比喜悦扩散更快》（Easier contagion and weaker ties make anger spread faster than joy in social media），论文链接：https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03656。如有任何疑问，敬请联系赵继昌，邮箱：[e-mail]。第一个数据集命名为"users_data"，包含2014年9月至2015年3月期间92176位用户发布的11753609条推文。其中，"tweets.txt"存储带情感标注的推文，"graph.txt"存储所有用户的关注关系。"graph.txt"中每行对应一条关注关系，包含两列：第一列为关注者（follower），第二列为被关注者（followee）。"tweets.txt"中每条推文由三个字段组成，依次为用户ID、发布时间与情感标签。若某行包含"==>"，则表明该条为转发推文，"==>"之后的内容为原始推文。第二个数据集存放于"event_tweets"目录下，涵盖616个不同事件的40005242条推文。该目录下每个文件对应一个特定事件的相关推文，每条推文由发布时间与情感标签两个字段构成。