def getUserInfo(user_id):
# Define a pandas dataframe to store the date:
user_info_df = pd.DataFrame(columns = ['twitter_id', 'name', 'screen_name', 'description', 'tweet_count', 'friends_count',
'followers_count', 'favourites_count', 'verified', 'created_at']
# Collect userinformation using get_user
info = api.get_user(user) # Get user information request
screen_name = info.screen_name
description = info.description
tweet_count = info.statuses_count
friends_count = info.friends_count
followers_count = info.followers_count
favourites_count = info.favourites_count
created_at = info.created_at
user_info = [twitter_id, name, screen_name, description, tweet_count, friends_count,
followers_count, favourites_count, verified, created_at]
user_info_df.loc[len(user_info_df)] = user_info