How to know how many followers all users have on DEV? I want to follow some big bloggers
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How to know how many followers all users have on DEV? I want to follow some big bloggers
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There's no way of doing this through the website.
You could write a script to access the API and crawl through users - I'd start by taking the "latest" posts of the last couple of weeks and then searching all those posts' authors. This is on the hypothesis that well-followed users post a lot and are likely to have posted recently, which may or may not be the case.
However, I'd caution against doing this at all: the number of followers someone has does not have any relationship to how "good" their content is, nor to whether they'll be someone you are interested in following.
If this is for idle curiosity or something, that's fine, but if you're looking to improve your feed, then it's probably not the way to do it.
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Would that even work? I haven't used the DEV api, but I would assume that there isn't a way to get number of followers other than your own since they don't publicly list those on profiles on purpose.
I'm not sure. I haven't used the API either, I was hypothesising wildly :)
DEV deliberately doesn't publicly display number of followers. If your motivation is as you say, then I'd recommend following tags on topics that interest you. Then go to the page for each tag of a topic that interests you, use the link that sorts by "Top" (which I think is by number of likes), and maybe switch the default in that sort to past month. Next, read some of the Top posts in tags you are interested in, and follow the authors whose writing you like.