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Twitter API: get newly created accounts

I'm looking for a way to fetch the usernames of the most recently created accounts on Twitter, or alternatively search for accounts, filtered by join date.

There doesn't seem to be a built-in way of doing this in the Twitter API. Can anyone suggest an alternative method, or a way of using the API in a way that would achieve this?

I'm aiming to carry out similar research to this study, but I've only managed to estimate the average length of active accounts (by sampling live tweets via the Streaming API), as opposed to new accounts.

Many thanks, in advance!

Solution

  • There is no API which provides this data.

    Furthermore, Twitter now uses non-sequential 64 bit IDs - so you can't just create a new user and increment their ID number.