Lookup_users retrieving 404 error

[JohanLugo]

Hello folks,

Newbie here; I’m currently working on a school project for Data Analysis with R. I’ve seen several videos explaining how the data is retrieved but mine for some reason is missing the “screen_name” - “status_id” column.

So, I’m currently trying to retrieve the users of the twees I’ve gathered so I can make a top N users more populars on certain tweets and so on.

Error: Twitter API failed [404]
Check error message at Twitter API Response Codes & Error Support | Twitter Developer Platform

I do apologize if I’m not familiar with the style of submitting a new topic, but definitely any assistance is highly appreciated.

[IgorBrigadir]

@JohanLugo

Error: Twitter API failed [404]

What R package are you using? currently, if using the new v2 API it’s better to use the GitHub - MaelKubli/RTwitterV2: R functions for Twitter's v2 API package. rtweet and anything older than a year or so is no longer supported (but you could get it to work if you have Elevated access, allowing you to use the old v1.1 API)

As an alternative, you can do the data gathering in command line with twarc, and import a CSV into R for analysis:

Help for beginners

I would begin here, to get the basics of setting up a command line utility up: Collect Twitter Data with Twarc! · Learn Twarc! That twarc tutorial doesn’t use the academic access endpoint, but it’s good practice to get familiar with using tools to get data. There are more tutorials here: Tutorials - twarc and a livestream recording here: TwitterDev: twarc2 and Academic Search - PeerTubeFR It will be better to use twarc2 for data crawling: to install twarc2, pip3 install --upgrade twarc then…

[JohanLugo]

Thank you for your prompt response.

I was indeed unaware of a V2 API version for the Rtweet, and I was using the old one. It makes sense that not all information that I’ve seen in forums and videos from year or so ago is not coming up when submitting the same queries.