twitter-scraper
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Feature: Get User Following/Friend (and Followers)
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