smappR (version 0.5)

getFollowers: Returns the list of user IDs that correspond to a given user's follower

Description

getFollowers connects to the REST API of Twitter and returns the list of followers of a given user. Note that this function allows the use of multiple OAuth token to make the process more efficient.

Usage

getFollowers(screen_name = NULL, oauth_folder, cursor = -1, user_id = NULL, verbose = TRUE, sleep = 1)

Arguments

screen_name

user name of the Twitter user for which their followers will be downloaded

oauth_folder

folder where OAuth tokens are stored.

cursor

See https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/followers/ids

user_id

user id of the Twitter user for which their friends will be downloaded

verbose

If TRUE, prints information about API calls on console

sleep

Number of seconds to sleep between API calls.

Examples

## Not run: 
# ## Download list of followers of user "p_barbera"
#  followers <- getFollowers(screen_name="p_barbera", oauth_folder="oauth")
# ## End(Not run)