number_followers: Number followers and indicate earliest following date

In Arf9999/rtweetXtras: Extra Analysis Functions for rtweet package

Number followers and indicate earliest following date

Description

This function consolidates the process of numbering followers and indicating earliest following date. WARNING: Obviously not accurate for dates prior to the creation of the target account - manual adjustment required. requires an rtweet dataframe as returned by a combination of get_followers() and lookup_users().

Usage

number_followers(follower_df)

Arguments

follower_df

Required. An rtweet dataframe of followers.

Examples

jacks_followers <- rtweet::lookup_users(unlist(rtweet::get_followers("jack", n=5000)[,"user_id"]))
jacks_followers_numbered <- number_followers(jacks_followers)

Arf9999/rtweetXtras documentation built on June 27, 2022, 5:10 a.m.