Find all followers for a user using Linq to Twitter?

Question

How can I find all the followers a Twitter user has using Linq2Twitter?

All I can find in the documentation is a reference to the .Following property, not the .Followers property.

var result = from search in context.List
             where search.Following //etc

How can I find the followers a Twitter user has if I provide the twitter username?

twitter.com/foobar // 'foobar' is the username.

I'm not sure if the lib is called 'to' or '2'. The logo says one thing, the text another. :P — Only Bolivian Here, May 23 '12 at 16:29

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 13 '12 at 22:37

LINQ to Twitter lets you query the social graph for friends and followers. Here's an example of how to get followers:

        var followers =
            (from follower in twitterCtx.SocialGraph
             where follower.Type == SocialGraphType.Followers &&
                   follower.ID == "15411837"
             select follower)
            .SingleOrDefault();

        followers.IDs.ForEach(id => Console.WriteLine("Follower ID: " + id));

That will return IDs. Here's the full documentation: http://linqtotwitter.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Listing%20Followers&referringTitle=Listing%20Social%20Graphs.

Joe

Mike Atlas · Answer 2 · 2012-05-23T16:40:03.520

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The Twitter API is GET followers/ids so I have to guess that the Linq2Twitter code is probably something like the following:

var users = from tweet in twitterCtx.User
                where tweet.Type == UserType.Show &&
                      tweet.ScreenName == "Sergio"
                select tweet;   
var user = users.SingleOrDefault();

var followers = user.Followers;

edited May 23 '12 at 16:40

answered May 23 '12 at 16:31

Mike Atlas

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How do the thousands of Twitter applications display a list of Followers? – Only Bolivian Here May 23 '12 at 16:34
Thanks for trying to help, but the `User` object doesn't have a `Followers` property. – Only Bolivian Here May 23 '12 at 16:43
It's entirely possible that linq2(to)twitter is an incomplete API and you'll either have to implement it yourself! – Mike Atlas May 23 '12 at 16:43
You can do so with a nice extension method! http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb383977.aspx – Mike Atlas May 23 '12 at 16:44
Hopefully that's not the case, but where did you come up with the code above? – Only Bolivian Here May 23 '12 at 16:44

Salman Hasrat Khan · Answer 3 · 2017-08-13T11:09:49.437

The following code demonstrates how to get all followers of a particular user

var followers =
            await
            (from follower in twitterCtx.Friendship
             where follower.Type == FriendshipType.FollowerIDs &&
                   follower.UserID == "15411837"
             select follower)
            .SingleOrDefaultAsync();

        if (followers != null && 
            followers.IDInfo != null && 
            followers.IDInfo.IDs != null)
        {
            followers.IDInfo.IDs.ForEach(id =>
                Console.WriteLine("Follower ID: " + id)); 
        }

Source: Linq2Twitter Github

Note: This method call is limited to 5000 followers only. If you just need the count of followers, it might be better to scrape it off the twitter website

Find all followers for a user using Linq to Twitter?

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