I have been playing with the Bot to get some information out of Twitter, the main problem the restriction of 100 requests per hour, means that could take a few hours to get the information of a user with lots of followers. I used Robert Scoble and Scott Hanselman for the test.

Total Network: the number of followers and one level in the followers of those.

Follower used in December: The followers that sent an update on the month of December.

Not used in December: The followers that didn’t use Twitter on the month of December

Total: Total Followers

% of followers Active: The percentage of followers that still use Twitter.

I got the highest percentage of people following me, well I am also newer at Twitter, I guess is telling us that almost 30% of the users do not use Twitter any more, better than the 80% I said before, the bot was going crazy that day ;-)

The code to get the info can be found here:

 ArrayList UsersToFollowTemp = new ArrayList(); string sXml = ""; bool Success = false; do { try { sXml = twitter.Followers(MyUsername, Mypassword, sUser, i); Success = true; } catch { Thread.Sleep((1000 * 60)* 20); Success = false; } } while (Success == false); XDocument loaded = XDocument.Parse(sXml); var allElements = from stat in loaded.Descendants("user") select new { ID = stat.Element("id").Value, Name = stat.Element("name").Value, Status = stat.Element("status"), FollowersCount = stat.Element("followers_count").Value, }; foreach (var allNames in allElements) { 

 // Do your process with the data you collected

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Cheers

Al

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