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I need to download all the followers of a user on Twitter, then download all the followers of each follower (second level network). I need the data in any format. Is it possibile? What would you use?

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There is a twitter module for python for example. You will need to register an appliction and to use oAuth. Bad news: also if you prefere something else than python, you will have to use OAuth. Good news: to use the twitter module in order to get information is quite simple afterwards.

Update: You can also use supertweet.net if you don't want to mess around with OAuth!

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You can use www.TWEXLIST.com. A a recent solution to export any Twitter list (public or private), followers list, followings list of any Twitter account (yours or any others) in an Excel spreadsheet.

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Some years ago I used Tweetake website to backup my Twitter data but it was closed (https://twitter.com/NikkiPilkington/status/270080732582522880). Since then I realized that it is not good to rely on a third party website and it is better to have a "do it yourself" solution. So I created a script that everybody will be able to use in their browser.

The script allows you to backup Twitter favorites, following and followers: https://gist.github.com/baptx/1525f338d93fa01db4e0 It is written in JavaScript and will create a textarea element with your backup data that you can copy/paste in a file. You can run it in a browser console on a local web page like Firefox's about: or a web page like https://duckduckgo.com/html (in the past I used it directly on https://api.twitter.com/1.1 web page but it's not working any more because they added Content Security Policy).

Before using the script, you need to get your access keys to use Twitter API 1.1: https://dev.twitter.com/oauth/overview/application-owner-access-tokens

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You can use https://www.followers-backup.com/web to download the list of followers/following (first level network) of any profile you want and it's free. Give it a try