Started with a desire to know "who is popular among (some of) my friends". Learned that users follow for all kinds of reasons and that correspondence is actually more important e.g. might reply to someone located during a search but never actually follow them.
See popular.py.
- WeFollow ** Interested less in who is popular on Twitter than among my friends
- DoesFollow ** Answers the fundamental question but not in a scalable way
- python-twitter ** More for design cues
- Giraffe ** One of only a couple of implementations that I could find on a code search
- Needs an update to use OAuth
- Depth-limited Search needs to be adjusted for Rate-limiting and Bots ** A DLSIter with depth=2 populates a huge graph (~250k Nodes) ** Bots follow 1000s of Users. Real Users don't follow more than about 300
- See Notes.txt for the gory, twisted trail.