Digging Twitter Users with Python
Tanks to the powerful Twitter REST API, it is easy with few lines of python code to extract useful information from the Twitter Engine.
The tool is written in python – it works in Python 2.7 and Python 3 – and it is quite handy to dig Twitter users, in particular it deals with Followers and Friends of a Twitter Account. You can download the code from https://github.com/pghedini/twitter_users
Features
The tool, by means of Twitter REST API, gets Followers and Friends of a given user. it provides the New followers and the Lost followers since the previous run.
It gives also the Not Following Friends: the Friends not following the given user.
Tot: 520 follower. New follower: 10 Lost follower: 1 Unchanged follower: 509 Tot: 795 friends. Friends not following: 355
In verbose mode, the tool gives the lists of New Followers, of Lost Followers and Not Following Friends.
Conclusion
The code is straightforward and you will be able to modify it to custom its features.
Enjoy and let me know if you like it in twitter @pierfghedini.
Pierfrancesco Ghedini
Quest’opera è distribuita con Licenza Creative Commons Attribuzione 3.0 Italia.
