august2016_project

Project Updates for August2016

followers_v2.R

R program to Get Follower ids using Twitter API and cursor pagination.
Example uses twitter account "@phillydotcom" which has more than 180k followers.
Program pulls in details for 5000 followers in each iteration.
Code automatically moves to next iteration using a "while" loop for "cursor" pagination.

dets_followers_v2.R

R program to Get details of Twitter Followers using Twitter API
Program pulls in screen name, username, location and follower count for each follower.

twitter_follower_ct_ver4.py

Python program to extract follower count and store it to csv Excel file.
This makes it possible to track (historical) growth or decline of Twitter follower count over a period of time.

Note, twitter API tokens and access keys are required to run all 3 programs.
Please create a Twitter developer id account and application to request these authorization keys.