1. Twitter API Limits Loophole - 5x return speed
   1. • we’re all restricted by the 75 calls/ 15 minute limit • Interesting Finding - there's an additional API calls under the 'auth-only' which require a Auth Bearer token which can easily be generated and act as an additional reserver
      1. For example - for 'get_retweets' API limits :
         1. • user-auth - 75/15 min - 1 request can return 100 retweets - we get 7500 retweets in 15 minutes
            1. • which is not fast enough when millions of followers are taken into account
         2. • app-auth - 300/15min - 1 request can return 100 retweets - we get 30000 retweets in 15 minutes
            1. • this can increase the return value 2.5 times from 7500*2 in 30 minutes to 37500 in 30 minutes
2. Removing the app limits
   1. • Twitter imposes a limit of 1000 DMs per day per user • It also imposes a limit of 15000 DMs per day per app
      1. • In order to get rid of the app-limits for POST requests, a developer can apply for 'Elevated post status'
         1. • the status is granted to anyone who's exceeding their app limits of 15k dms
3. Get Followers - fastest non-api based method
   1. • Bluebird came across to be fastest library which could get followers without using any API.
      1. • Time taken to get 1 follower - .04 sec • do the math to get the time taken for N followers
4. Get tweets - fastest non-api based method
   1. • Twint allows you to fetch all the tweets of the influencer without any waiting/sleeping required
      1. • Fetched around 9000 tweet objects of an influencer in 20 minutes
5. Rate limit - auto sleep
   1. • Instead of having to add exceptions everywhere, we can auto-sleep it by passing these parameters in the api function
      1. api = tweepy.API(auth,wait_on_rate_limit_notify=True,wait_on_rate_limit=True)
6. • We can create two auth tokens (OAuth 1.0a and OAuth 2.0) and run two request calls alternatively while maintaining the cursor • this can significantly improvise the speed 2.5 times • If we can figure out a way to run them concurrently while maintaining the cursor, then the return speed can be 5x