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i've noticed fake followers have arrived in Github. Suddenly get a bunch of followers with accounts that popup out of nowhere, and all pretend to be college students with profiles that are a near carbon copy of other accounts. Some dormant, and others a month old.

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Nov 21, 2022Liked by Conspirador Norteño

This is good stuff. The first script worked but the second one gave Deprecation errors. When that was fixed, it resulted in BAD_COLUMN_NAME errors. Is there a fix for it?

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My guess is it's either something related to character encoding or something minor that's different between pandas versions. (I deliberately avoid updating pandas super-frequently, and am still on 1.4.7).

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Nov 21, 2022Liked by Conspirador Norteño

Thanks. It worked when I tried it on my computer. Gave me issues when I was doing it from the cloud.

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Glad I stumbled across this. I've been trying to relearn Python for this sort of work, and this is a great sample script to play around with.

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I get 2 or 3 fake followers per day on twitter; most appear to be pig butchering scammers. They typically have zero posts and are presumably hoping for a follow so they can send me a DM. I don't know what to do about this. For the ones with posts, I'm thinking of "Warning" them about pig butchering scams, hopefully to raise awareness among their potential victims.

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The second code has an error, what is the reason?

KeyError: 'legend'

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Might be due to different bokeh versions - try changing "legend=" to "legend_label=". (Both work for me; if the change fixes it for you, let me know and I'll edit the code in the article.)

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