I have hooked up my Twitter account to Mathematica and I have 1468 followers
myfollowers = Length[SocialMediaData["Twitter", "Followers"]]
1468
I wondered what my follower network would look like but the returned graph was far too simple looking:
a = SocialMediaData["Twitter", "FollowerNetwork"]
The graph only has 32 vertices:
VertexCount[a]
Looking at the names of the Twitter users it has included, it seems that it has only considered the most recent people who have followed me.
So, how do I get Mathematica to consider all of my followers?
hugelist = SocialMediaData[{"Twitter", "stephenfry"}, "Friends"]
returns a list that is only 5000 followers long. However, Mr Stephen Fry has over 5,000,000 followers! Limitations on the Twitter API perhaps? $\endgroup$ – WalkingRandomly Dec 1 '12 at 14:52SocialMediaData
to Facebook, a similar thing happens, i.e. the vertex count of my Friends Network is strictly smaller than my number of Friends. In that context, I believe the reason has to do with my friends privacy settings which doesn't necessarily allow me to friends' friends. $\endgroup$ – Mark McClure Dec 1 '12 at 17:46