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| May 17, 2016 at 11:29 | comment | added | Oliver Frost | Perhaps you should consider option 1, looping through a list of predefined search terms, that way you can make 180 requests per 15 minutes and are less likely to hit the rate limit before collecting a substantial amount of tweets (and the handles attached). | |
| May 17, 2016 at 11:23 | comment | added | Oliver Frost |
I am not quite sure how the lookupUsers() function works in terms of pagination of results. But according to the docs, you should be able to get up to 5000 users per unique request by using the GET followers/id method on its own. FYI, the rate limit refreshes every 15 minutes.
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| May 17, 2016 at 11:16 | comment | added | Chirag Kanase | I have tried the Twitter REST api method in R like you mentioned. Whenever I try to get the followers, R gives rate limit reached warning. This was for about 36k followers. Justin Bieber has about 1.7M followers. R will definitely give the same error. | |
| May 17, 2016 at 10:39 | history | answered | Oliver Frost | CC BY-SA 3.0 |