Checking a user's recently followed accounts (sort by date)

The Twitter API (or web interface) does not provide the exact following date.

However, Twitter sorts the list of followers according to following date, with the most recent follower on top - both on the platform and through the API GET followers endpoint (see here - though this might change in future). The API also provides the date at which a user account was created. Therefore, the earliest possible following date of follower X is

• the date at which an "earlier" follower's account was created, if this happened more recently than the creation of X's account or
• the date at which X's account was created otherwise.

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abutor said:

The list of followers is ordered by date followed. All you need is to get the followers list then reverse it and you have what you want, I think.

You can't get the exact date that someone started following someone but here is a python function for guessing the date:

https://github.com/BernhardClemm/twitter-follow-dates
Quoting the github description:

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