TwitterGAN: Fake Account Dataset with GAN Profile Images (AAAI 2020)
A Twitter dataset of 1,353 fake accounts, collected by Yang et al. (OSoMe/Indiana University). Each record contains user_id, user profile, recent tweets, GAN-generated profile image path, dataset label. Twitter fake account dataset featuring GAN-generated profile photos; multimodal bot detection resource.. Suitable for Social bot detection, GAN-generated content identification, deepfake profile research..
Cite this dataset at
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Record
- Catalog key
osome-twittergan- Authors
- Yang, Kaicheng; Singh, Danishjeet; Menczer, Filippo
- Year
- 2024
- Source paper
- Characteristics and Prevalence of Fake Social Media Profiles with AI-generated Faces
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.54501/jots.v2i4.197
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (CC-BY-4.0)
- Records
- 8,125
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2023 (2020s)
- Tasks
- Bot detection inferred
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://zenodo.org/records/10436889 link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-21, 84.5 MB across 4 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
Characteristics and prevalence of fake social media profiles with AI-generated faces
Kai-Cheng Yang, Danishjeet Singh, F. Menczer
Journal Article · Journal of Online Trust and Safety · 2024
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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-22.
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{Yang_2024,
title = {Characteristics and Prevalence of Fake Social Media Profiles with AI-generated Faces},
volume = {2},
issn = {2770-3142},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.54501/jots.v2i4.197},
doi = {10.54501/jots.v2i4.197},
number = {4},
journal = {Journal of Online Trust and Safety},
publisher = {Stanford Internet Observatory},
author = {Yang, Kaicheng and Singh, Danishjeet and Menczer, Filippo},
year = {2024},
month = Sept
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Yang, K., Singh, D., & Menczer, F. (2024). TwitterGAN: Fake Account Dataset with GAN Profile Images (AAAI 2020) [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.54501/jots.v2i4.197
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Yang, Kaicheng, et al. TwitterGAN: Fake Account Dataset with GAN Profile Images (AAAI 2020). 2024, doi.org/10.54501/jots.v2i4.197.