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scraperwiki / twitter-follows-tool

Get users who follow or are following a particular user; tool now defunct, though the code is here for reference.
https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2014/08/the-story-of-getting-twitter-data-and-its-missing-middle/
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Could offer following as well as followers #4

Closed frabcus closed 11 years ago

frabcus commented 11 years ago

As a drop down option - following, followers or both.

zarino commented 11 years ago

I might present it as two checkboxes.

[ ] Followers    [ ] Following

You could default to just one.

zarino commented 11 years ago

Given the slowness of the api calling process, is this still a feasible option?

Or, would it be better kept in a separate tool?

How often do you want to scrape both the people who follow a certain account and the people who that account follows?

frabcus commented 11 years ago

I think it should be a separate tool.

As a user I'd find that much less confusing.

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 04:01:01AM -0800, Zarino Zappia wrote:

Given the slowness of the api calling process, is this still a feasible option?

Or, would it be better kept in a separate tool?

How often do you want to scrape both the people who follow a certain account and the people who that account follows?

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/scraperwiki/twitter-follows-tool/issues/4#issuecomment-13544562

frabcus commented 11 years ago

And to answer your specific question - I have not so far wanted both.

I've wanted my followers, as people to message who already know/like me.

I want important people's following, so I know who to talk to try and influence / come to the attention of them.

Not sure I'd ever want both.