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Is it possible to search Twitter Users by number of followers? – Twitter API

I would like to find public users on Twitter that have 0 followers. I was thinking of using https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/accounts-and-users/follow-search-get-users/api-reference/get-users-search, but this doesn’t have a way to filter by number of followers. Are there any simple alternatives? (Otherwise, I might have to resort to using a graph/search based approach starting from a random point)

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    Bird SQL by Perplexity AI allows you to do this simply: https://www.perplexity.ai/sql

    Query: Users with 0 followers, and 0 following, with at least 5 tweets

    SELECT user_url, full_name, followers_count, following_count, tweet_count
FROM users
WHERE (followers_count = 0)
  AND (following_count = 0)
  AND (tweet_count >= 5)
ORDER BY tweet_count DESC
LIMIT 10

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    Well you didn’t specify what library you are using to interact with the Twitter API. But regardless of which technology you’re using, the underlying concept is the same. I will use tweepy library in python for my example.

    Start by getting the public users using this. The return type is a list of user objects. The user object has several attributes which you can learn about here. For now we are interested in the followers_count attribute. Simply loop through the objects returned and check where the value of this attribute is 0.

    Here’s how the implementation would look like in python using tweepy library;

    search_query = 'your search query here'
get_users = api.search_users(q = search_query)#Returns a list of user objects
for users in get_users:
    if users.followers_count ==0:
        #Do stuff if the user has 0 followers
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