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Emphasis on "past 30 days". Your graph with context shows most activity before January, whereas mine only begins in February. I wish I had the foresight to sta
by shazow 16y ago
Emphasis on "past 30 days". Your graph with context shows most activity before January, whereas mine only begins in February.
I wish I had the foresight to start monitoring earlier.
- ivankirigin 16y agoYou might be able to find other data sources, scraping http://twittercounter.com/ http://twittercounter.com/ for example Also, API endpoints for friendship might have a follower_since date, and you can approximate the history. In so far as unfollowing is rare compared to following, it would be accurate. http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/friendships/show http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/friendships/show maybe?
- shazow 16y agoUnfollowing is not as rare as you think. Out of all follows/unfollows SocialGrapple has tracked so far (for detailed accounts), 35% are unfollows of the subject account (63% unfollows from the subject account). I did check the API, Twitter doesn't give you historical relationship data like that. This is something that SocialGrapple was built to solve. Scraping is something I haven't considered, though being a tertiary source of data is something I'd like to avoid (I already have nightmares of Twitter shutting me down for no reason). I'm not even sure how accurate TwitterCounter's data is, at least I can account for my own and Twitter's mistakes. I'll give it some more thought nonetheless.