Hi there at twitter, I wonder how the following is done with a per user limit of 350 requests per hour: We have a tool, that analyzes follower and following of a specific user. (for example: list the new followers or the ones, that doesn't follow back). Luckily we are whitelisted at the moment!
For this feature we use the REST API interface (http://api.twitter.com/ version/followers/ids.format) to get a list of all follower and following (friends) ids and compare them with the list stored yesterday. This id-list is partitioned in 5000 ids. To get the whole list of follower ids of the user "aplusk" for example, we have to call the API 1268 times. With a per user limit of 350 calls/hour, this means, it takes 4 hours to get the whole list! Is there another way to do this? Or what are your answers for this problem? Yours Joe Seibert -- 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
