#1

I would like to be able to get a list of all users with a follower count above a certain threshold (say 1 million followers). I do not know any users ahead of time. I have been scouring the API documentation (including the ad API) and have not been able to find anything. Does anyone have any ideas of how to achieve this?

#2

It’s not possible to filter users like that as far as i know. You can look up 100 user ids at a time with users/lookup, and also the verified users list is the follows of @verified https://twitter.com/verified/following so grabbing those will give you a good start (not all verified users have high follower counts but lots do, so you can manually filter the list yourself after you retrieve those users - the follower counts are in the json)

#3

Thanks for the reply! Is that how you suspect sites like trackalytics “most followed twitter pages” does it?

#4

Yeah - i think so. Another way is to just monitor the public stream and check retweets and tweets for high follower accounts, and aggregate other people’s compiled lists like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-followed_Twitter_accounts or https://socialblade.com/twitter/top/100 (keep in mind that these are heavily skewed towards US audiences, because US makes up the largest part of Twitter users)

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