tweepy.error.TweepError: [{u'message': u'Text parameter is missing.', u'code': 38}]
Question: I am using `tweepy` twitter api for python, while using it i got some error, I
am not able to use `send_direct_message(user/screen_name/user_id, text)` this
method

Here is my code:-

    
    
    import tweepy
    consumer_key='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
    consumer_secret='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
    access_token='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
    access_token_secret='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
    auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
    auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
    
    API = tweepy.API(auth)
    
    user = API.get_user('SSPendse')
    screen_name="CJ0495"
    id = 773436067231956992
    text="Message Which we have to send must have maximum 140 characters, If it is Greater then the message will be truncated upto 140 characters...."
    # re = API.send_direct_message(screen_name, text)
    re = API.send_direct_message(id, text)
    print re
    

got following error:-

    
    
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "tweetApi.py", line 36, in <module>
        re = API.send_direct_message(id, text)
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tweepy/binder.py", line 245, in _call
        return method.execute()
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tweepy/binder.py", line 229, in execute
        raise TweepError(error_msg, resp, api_code=api_error_code)
    tweepy.error.TweepError: [{u'message': u'Text parameter is missing.', u'code': 38}]
    

What will be mistake done by me...???

I also have another problem related to tweepy, How can I moved to page two or
got more followers in following code

    
    
    i=1
    user = API.get_user('Apple')
    followers = API.followers(user.id,-1)
    for follower in followers:
        print follower,'\t',i
        i=i+1
    

if I run the code I got only 5000 followers however if I use
`user.followers_count` it gives _362705_ followers (**This no. may be changes
while You check it**) How can I see remaining followers

Thank You... :)


Answer: To solve your first error, replace `re = API.send_direct_message(id, text)`
with `re = API.send_direct_message(id, text=text)`. This function only works
if you give it the message as a named parameter. The parameter name you need
here is "text", so you might want to change your variable name to avoid
confusion. Also, I just tried it, since you are sending a direct message, not
a tweet, it will **not** be truncated to only the first 140 characters.

For your second question, this should do the trick, as explained
[here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17431807/get-all-follower-ids-in-
twitter-by-tweepy):

    
    
    followers = []
    for page in tweepy.Cursor(API.followers, screen_name='Apple').pages():
        followers.extend(page)
        time.sleep(60) #this is here to slow down your requests and prevent you from hitting the rate limit and encountering a new error
    print(followers)
    

