Word Cloud of the applications:
61% of people have less than 1000 followers.
7% of people have more than 10,000. Full distribution:
Code that scrapes and generates this page can be found here.
Written in Python, uses Tweepy and Twoolpy. See Readme for details.
Download raw data here as Python pickle. Use in python as:
>> import cPickle as pickle
>> acceptedTweetsList = pickle.load(open("glass.p", "rb" ))
>> tweet = acceptedTweetsList[0]
>> tweet.__dict__ # explore what data is stored in the tweet class
>> tweet.user.__dict__ # explore the user class
>> tweet.user.followers_count # for example, stores the number of followers of that user
(thanks @AMZoellner for the idea!)