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		alaricus on May 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nearly 20% of active Twitter accounts likely to be... How do you get 1000 acounts at random? Does twitter have an API for it?

ianbooker on May 16, 2022 | [–]

The stream API can sample, but then you see currently active accounts only.

Users are denoted by numerical ID, you can sample using this.

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