I've been working on a large Twitter Metrics project for a while now
but one vexing thing in this experiment is showing non-followers. It
should be a simple task, but it hasn't been. Using sites like
justunfollow and twitterkarma i've verified my following but not
following back count to be 2,058. No matter how many times I run my
software [In addition to shuffle() I have manually iterated through
the entire follow list - if someone has a better method let me know
please (API Rate Limiting :/).
So here is the disparity, my code shows 1,518 non-followers. sites
designed to calculate this showed earlier today 2,058. A lot of things
could be going wrong here, maybe someone can point me in the right
direction. I'm using Abrahams PHP Twitter OAuth on PHP 5.3 w/ MYSQL:
DB:
CREATE TABLE `NonFollowers` (
`ID` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`UserID` int(11) NOT NULL,
`Screenname` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`DateAdded` datetime NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`ID`),
UNIQUE KEY `UserID` (`UserID`)
);
PHP:
public function GetFollowing() {
$method = 'friends/ids';
$following = $this->connection->get($method);
echo count($following);
return $following;
}
public function StatisticsNonFollowers() {
$Following = $this->GetFollowing();
$NonFollowersInDB = $this->GetNonFollowers();
shuffle($Following);
$NonFollower = array();
for ($i = 0; $i < count($Following); $i++) {
$parameters = array('source_id' => $this->myID, 'target_id' =>
$Following[$i]);
$method = 'friendships/show';
$FollowBack = $this->connection->get($method,
$parameters);
$HTTP_Response = $this->connection->http_code;
if ($HTTP_Response != 200) {
die("Received HTTP response of
{$HTTP_Response}");
}
$FollowingBack =
$FollowBack->relationship->target->following;
if ($FollowingBack != 1) {
$Screenname =
$FollowBack->relationship->target->screen_name;
$ID = $Following[$i];
$NonFollowers[$i] = $ID;
$DateAdded = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
$query = "INSERT IGNORE INTO NonFollowers (UserID, Screenname,
DateAdded) VALUES ($ID, '$Screenname', '$DateAdded')";
$rows = $this->DB->insert_sql($query);
}
}
}
...
Any help for discovering this disparity would be great helpful! Thanks
in advance group.
- Slate.
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