collect_follower_timelines: Collects timelines of followers

In seanchrismurphy/twtools: Utility functions for dealing with tweet data from Twitter

Description

This function takes a vector of users (e.g. c('seanchrismurphy', LydiaHayward2', 'katiehgreenaway)), and then collects the timelines of their followers, returning a dataset with up to nstatus tweets for each of nfollowers, for ever user entered. For instance if you input five users with nfollowers = 100 and ntatus = 200, you would retrieve up to 100, 000 tweets (though usually substantially less, do to sparse timelines)

Usage

collect_follower_timelines(users, nfollowers = 90, nstatus = 200,
  minstatus = 20, language = "en")

Arguments

users	The list of users whose followers you wish to collect.
nfollowers	Defaults to 100. The maximum number of followers you wish to collect for each user.
nstatus	Defaults to 200. The maximum number of statuses you wish to collect for each follower.
minstatus	Defaults to 20. The minimum number of tweets a follower must have for you to download their timeline.
language	Defaults to 'en'. A filter to only collect users of the specified language.

seanchrismurphy/twtools documentation built on May 29, 2019, 4:27 p.m.