Retweeters

This feature was brought up by Fred Trotter with the predecessor of nucoll. The idea was to generate a retweet graph i.e. among a group of followers of a particular user, which users retweet each other.

The functionality implemented in nucoll allows init to look for retweeters of the specified user. It scans the followers' timelines up to a specified limit. This number cannot exceed 3200 per Twitter API specification. It then scans the tweets looking for matches between in_reply_to_screen_name and the specified handle.

In the example below, I look across my followers for retweets of my posts limiting the search to 100 most recent tweets.

$ nucoll init -r 100 jdevoo

The resulting .dat file can be processed as usual with fetch followed by edgelist.