Determining your Twitter followers and friends
In the Twitter social network, users are labeled either as followers or friends relative to a particular user. Your friends are the people that you follow and your followers are the people that follow you. In this recipe, we determine who your friends are, who your followers are, and how much overlap there is in each group.
Getting ready
For this recipe, we will be using the results of the previous two recipes and the twitter_oauth_login()
function. Also, we will be working in IPython or the default Python REPL, if you prefer that instead. Feel free to use an editor in order to start capturing and modifying the code as it grows in complexity.
How to do it...
The following steps will allow you to determine all of your Twitter friends and followers:
- In IPython or your favorite REPL, enter the following:
In [8]: twitter = twitter_oauth_login()
...: friends_ids = twitter.get_friends_ids(count=5000)
...: friends_ids = friends_ids['ids']
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