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Feature: Get User Following/Friend (and Followers)

Open BradKML opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

Reason: researching about follow networks are useful for creating datasets and manufacturing communities.

  • https://github.com/narendraj9/digsep
  • https://github.com/timbennett/twitter-chat-networks
  • https://github.com/jvallyea/Mapping-Social-Media

Why is this done?

Take a look at these two pieces of research about the interconnectedness of Twitter

  • http://faculty.cbpp.uaa.alaska.edu/afef/six_degrees_of_separation.htm
  • https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2015/08/28/the-value-of-3-degrees-of-separation-on-twitter/

Alternatives?

Twint is having compilation issues https://github.com/twintproject/twint/wiki/Scraping-functions#users Scweet is also having problems with its non-packages https://github.com/Altimis/Scweet

BradKML avatar Apr 12 '21 08:04 BradKML