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## tl;dr Benefits
Some of the benefits of using Twint vs Twitter API:
- Can fetch almost __all__ Tweets (Twitter API limits to last 3200 Tweets only)
- Fast initial setup
- Can be used anonymously and without Twitter sign up
-**No rate limitations**
- Can fetch almost __all__ Tweets (Twitter API limits to last 3200 Tweets only);
- Fast initial setup;
- Can be used anonymously and without Twitter sign up;
-**No rate limitations**.
## Limits imposed by Twitter
Twitter limits scrolls while browsing the user timeline. This means that with `.Profile` or with `.Favorites` you will be able to get ~3200 tweets.
## Requirements
- Python 3.6
- Python 3.6;
- aiohttp;
- aiodns;
- beautifulsoup4;
- cchardet;
- elasticsearch;
- pysocks;
- pandas (>=0.23.0);
- aiohttp_socks;
- schedule;
- geopy;
- fake-useragent.
## Installing
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-`twint -u username --database tweets.db` - Save Tweets to a SQLite database.
-`twint -u username --followers` - Scrape a Twitter user's followers.
-`twint -u username --following` - Scrape who a Twitter user follows.
-`twint -u username --favorites` - Collect all the Tweets a user has favorited.
-`twint -u username --favorites` - Collect all the Tweets a user has favorited (gathers ~3200 tweet).
-`twint -u username --following --user-full` - Collect full user information a person follows
-`twint -u username --profile-full` - Use a slow, but effective method to gather Tweets from a user's profile (Gathers ~3200 Tweets, Including Retweets).
-`twint -u username --retweets` - Use a quick method to gather the last 900 Tweets (that includes retweets) from a user's profile.
-`twint -u username --resume 10940389583058` - Resume a search starting from the specified Tweet ID.
-`twint -u username --resume resume_file.txt` - Resume a search starting from the last saved scroll-id.
More detail about the commands and options are located in the [wiki](https://github.com/twintproject/twint/wiki/Commands)
