[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/followers incorrectly ordered
This unorderedness is confusing to users.. They see their number of followers increase, then when they open their list of followers, the same set of people are always shown.. They are expecting to see their newest followers at the top of the list like they do on the twitter website. Its not even possible to to order this list ourselves, as the followed date is not available in the response. Though that would be a very expensive operation to do on a mobile device for people with thousands of followers. On Dec 2, 4:00 pm, Thomas Woolway tswool...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Wilhelm, Thanks for the follow up, The Twitter web site is still showing followers in the correct order - is this not something that can be extended to the API, and if not, why the disconnect? Thanks, Tom On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Wilhelm Bierbaum wilh...@twitter.comwrote: Your observations are correct. Ordering cannot be guaranteed because of the way we store the graph. I'll make sure that we update the documentation to reflect this fact. On Dec 2, 7:45 am, tom tswool...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, We've recently seen a change in the ordering of the users that the statuses/followers method returns - according to the docs, this method should be returning the users in this order: They are ordered by the order in which they followed the user. However, they now appear essentially unordered - doing a simple curl call shows that we're not even getting the latest 100 users back. This is causing some problems in our app as we depend on the ordering being as documented. Has anyone else noticed this? Can anyone from Twitter confirm? Thanks, Tom
[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/followers incorrectly ordered
I will look into the ordering issue. On Dec 3, 9:26 am, Naveen knig...@gmail.com wrote: This unorderedness is confusing to users.. They see their number of followers increase, then when they open their list of followers, the same set of people are always shown.. They are expecting to see their newest followers at the top of the list like they do on the twitter website. Its not even possible to to order this list ourselves, as the followed date is not available in the response. Though that would be a very expensive operation to do on a mobile device for people with thousands of followers. On Dec 2, 4:00 pm, Thomas Woolway tswool...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Wilhelm, Thanks for the follow up, The Twitter web site is still showing followers in the correct order - is this not something that can be extended to the API, and if not, why the disconnect? Thanks, Tom On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Wilhelm Bierbaum wilh...@twitter.comwrote: Your observations are correct. Ordering cannot be guaranteed because of the way we store the graph. I'll make sure that we update the documentation to reflect this fact. On Dec 2, 7:45 am, tom tswool...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, We've recently seen a change in the ordering of the users that the statuses/followers method returns - according to the docs, this method should be returning the users in this order: They are ordered by the order in which they followed the user. However, they now appear essentially unordered - doing a simple curl call shows that we're not even getting the latest 100 users back. This is causing some problems in our app as we depend on the ordering being as documented. Has anyone else noticed this? Can anyone from Twitter confirm? Thanks, Tom
[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/followers incorrectly ordered
I will look into getting these into the same order as the site. On Dec 3, 9:26 am, Naveen knig...@gmail.com wrote: This unorderedness is confusing to users.. They see their number of followers increase, then when they open their list of followers, the same set of people are always shown.. They are expecting to see their newest followers at the top of the list like they do on the twitter website. Its not even possible to to order this list ourselves, as the followed date is not available in the response. Though that would be a very expensive operation to do on a mobile device for people with thousands of followers. On Dec 2, 4:00 pm, Thomas Woolway tswool...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Wilhelm, Thanks for the follow up, The Twitter web site is still showing followers in the correct order - is this not something that can be extended to the API, and if not, why the disconnect? Thanks, Tom On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Wilhelm Bierbaum wilh...@twitter.comwrote: Your observations are correct. Ordering cannot be guaranteed because of the way we store the graph. I'll make sure that we update the documentation to reflect this fact. On Dec 2, 7:45 am, tom tswool...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, We've recently seen a change in the ordering of the users that the statuses/followers method returns - according to the docs, this method should be returning the users in this order: They are ordered by the order in which they followed the user. However, they now appear essentially unordered - doing a simple curl call shows that we're not even getting the latest 100 users back. This is causing some problems in our app as we depend on the ordering being as documented. Has anyone else noticed this? Can anyone from Twitter confirm? Thanks, Tom
[twitter-dev] Re: statuses/followers incorrectly ordered
Your observations are correct. Ordering cannot be guaranteed because of the way we store the graph. I'll make sure that we update the documentation to reflect this fact. On Dec 2, 7:45 am, tom tswool...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, We've recently seen a change in the ordering of the users that the statuses/followers method returns - according to the docs, this method should be returning the users in this order: They are ordered by the order in which they followed the user. However, they now appear essentially unordered - doing a simple curl call shows that we're not even getting the latest 100 users back. This is causing some problems in our app as we depend on the ordering being as documented. Has anyone else noticed this? Can anyone from Twitter confirm? Thanks, Tom
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: statuses/followers incorrectly ordered
Hi Wilhelm, Thanks for the follow up, The Twitter web site is still showing followers in the correct order - is this not something that can be extended to the API, and if not, why the disconnect? Thanks, Tom On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Wilhelm Bierbaum wilh...@twitter.comwrote: Your observations are correct. Ordering cannot be guaranteed because of the way we store the graph. I'll make sure that we update the documentation to reflect this fact. On Dec 2, 7:45 am, tom tswool...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, We've recently seen a change in the ordering of the users that the statuses/followers method returns - according to the docs, this method should be returning the users in this order: They are ordered by the order in which they followed the user. However, they now appear essentially unordered - doing a simple curl call shows that we're not even getting the latest 100 users back. This is causing some problems in our app as we depend on the ordering being as documented. Has anyone else noticed this? Can anyone from Twitter confirm? Thanks, Tom
