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Analyze more than 5000 followers
Hi there! I want to analyse and account that has 21,000 followers, but as far as I know Refollow only looks at the first 5,000 accounts and applies the filters to these. I understand that this is because of how the Twitter API works. Is there any way I can get to the remaining 16,000 followers? I mean, is there a "next" button" I don't see?
Just to be clear, this is not about getting more results, this is about searching a bigger space. Using my search criteria I was able to limit the results to under 100, so I'm not having the issues that some of the other users are having. However, as far as I know these are only 100 out of the first 5,000.
Related question: How do you pick the first 5,000? Is that based on date followed, size, last tweet or something else? Thanks!
Answer
Timol -- The list of followers appears, by default, in the order in which following occurred (date followed). You can sort the list, however, by clicking on any of the column headers.
We are exploring methods of helping our users step through lists larger than 5K followers. There are a couple concerns with this. First, Twitter imposes a limit on how many requests can be made every 15 minutes, and the size of the response can also trigger the rate-limit, as well. Our approach, to date, has been to encourage users to move a little more slowly through the process by limiting the list sizes.
Soon, we hope to have more options to try.
Thanks for the response. Just to elaborate: Using the filters I was able to limit the number of people to a very small set. In my second iteration I was even more radical and was able to get it down to 31 out of 20,000 (which of course is really only 5,000). You are saying you want people to go through the results more slowly, and I get that. But how do I get to the next batch of matching profiles once I have gone through those 31 matching profiles, either by following, ignoring with X or just ignoring them with no action. Or is that not possible? Tanks!
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Timol -- The list of followers appears, by default, in the order in which following occurred (date followed). You can sort the list, however, by clicking on any of the column headers.
We are exploring methods of helping our users step through lists larger than 5K followers. There are a couple concerns with this. First, Twitter imposes a limit on how many requests can be made every 15 minutes, and the size of the response can also trigger the rate-limit, as well. Our approach, to date, has been to encourage users to move a little more slowly through the process by limiting the list sizes.
Soon, we hope to have more options to try.