I also have a similar question: what is the minimum user_id that is on twitter and the maximum id. I am trying to write a program to browse through all twitter users such that their description or bios have certain words and store their information in a file for data analysis.
I was thinking more of using something like api.get_user(user_id=0) and iterating through the profiles until the max_id is reached.
Any help would be appreciated thanks.