/cohost-birdapp-finder

Retrieves users you follow on Twitter and checks if accounts with the same usernames exist on Cohost

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cohost-birdapp-finder

Retrieves users you follow on Twitter and checks if accounts with the same usernames exist on Cohost.

How to use

Before using you will need to get a bearer token from Twitter's Developer Platform.

  1. Run cohost-birdapp-finder.py
  2. Input your bearer token and hit Enter.
  3. Input your Twitter username (without the @) and hit Enter.
  4. Hit Enter to confirm your display name is correct.
  5. Wait for program to finish. Results will be output to output.csv.

Limitations

  • Only retrieves your most 1000 most recent follows
  • Minimal error handling
  • Requires a twitter bearer token

This was written in 3 days primarilly for personal use. Ideally this would be a webapp so you don't need to download and locally run Python code.