[twitter-dev] Friends and Followers Resources for Protected Accounts
Going through the website. I was able to jump from a list to a users page. Even though the user is protected I can see their followers and who they are following. If I use the api against that user to get the users follower ids I get: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized. Here is the documentation for the endpoint I am using, http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/followers/ids. Seems like an inconsistency between the website and the api. I just want to verify that is excepted result from the api. Thanks for any help ahead of time. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
Re: [twitter-dev] Friends and followers
Probably a naming mistake made early on that would have been too much effort to change later on. Clearly though, mutual following indicates Friends more that the unidirectional follow does. In my system, we say following and friends like you suggest. A bit confusing, but I think easier than coming up with a new word for mutual following. You can see it here: http://madison.imby.info/p/Philip.Crawford On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Miles Parker milespar...@gmail.com wrote: This question is sort of pedantic, but I'm wondering why the API refers to friends instead of followers. The API say's that friends == following, but I understand (e.g. see this nice little article http://andrewchenblog.com/2009/03/16/friends-versus-followers-twitters-elegant-design-for-grouping-contacts/) that friends are mutual followers, that is: 1. I follow you (following) - 2. You follow me (follower) - 3. We follow each other (friends) - 4. Nada ø So would it be correct to substitute following for friends WRT to API? To keep it straight on my side, I'm going to have to come up with a word that means friends in the sense of 3 above. -- imby - in my back yard An Experiment in Local Professional Networking http://madison.imby.info/p/Philip.Crawford
[twitter-dev] Friends and followers
This question is sort of pedantic, but I'm wondering why the API refers to friends instead of followers. The API say's that friends == following, but I understand (e.g. see this nice little article http://andrewchenblog.com/2009/03/16/friends-versus-followers-twitters-elegant-design-for-grouping-contacts/) that friends are mutual followers, that is: 1. I follow you (following)- 2. You follow me (follower) - 3. We follow each other (friends)- 4. Nada ø So would it be correct to substitute following for friends WRT to API? To keep it straight on my side, I'm going to have to come up with a word that means friends in the sense of 3 above.
Re: [twitter-dev] Friends and followers
Twitter has evolved quite a bit over the last 4 years. It's not always possible to evolve the API at the same pace. I wouldn't say that mutual followers are friends. They're just mutual followers. On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Miles Parker milespar...@gmail.com wrote: This question is sort of pedantic, but I'm wondering why the API refers to friends instead of followers. The API say's that friends == following, but I understand (e.g. see this nice little article http://andrewchenblog.com/2009/03/16/friends-versus-followers-twitters-elegant-design-for-grouping-contacts/ ) that friends are mutual followers, that is: 1. I follow you (following)- 2. You follow me (follower) - 3. We follow each other (friends)- 4. Nada ø So would it be correct to substitute following for friends WRT to API? To keep it straight on my side, I'm going to have to come up with a word that means friends in the sense of 3 above.
[twitter-dev] friends and followers methods in docs
I noticed that the friends and followers methods aren't on the docs any more here: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-API-Documentation Did I miss the memo that these were being deprecated? Why aren't they in the docs? Thanks, Jesse
[twitter-dev] Friends and followers listing ends abruptly for large numbers
I'm using the api to retrieve friends and followers for a popular user but it seems the api and the twitter friends and followers webpage end the listing quite early in the listing. (I'm assuming the webpages just use the api behind the scenes) For example check out stephenfry's profile... He's got 316888 followers which should result in over 15000 pages of followers (20 per page). However if you go to, say, page 1000 there are no results: http://twitter.com/stephenfry/followers?page=1000 (the listing actually ends on page 647: http://twitter.com/stephenfry/followers?page=647) I'm seeing the exact same issue with my client. The api also stops the listing early. Anyone able to shed any light?
