[twitter-dev] Re: [Q] how to collect info on followers efficiently

2009-05-10 Thread Joe Flesh
Thanks Cameron, thats what I need, until I get to 500K followers :) On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: Let's say I want to write an application that operates a twitter account X, and I want the application to obtain every hour for each follower Y of

[twitter-dev] Re: [Q] how to collect info on followers efficiently

2009-05-10 Thread Joe Flesh
Unfortunately these APIs give you the IDs of your followers, but not the number of followers that each of these IDs has. So this is not the answer. Ordinarily I'd write my app to cache the IDs of the twitter account that it's operating so that it would not have to ask for this list every time.

[twitter-dev] Re: [Q] how to collect info on followers efficiently

2009-05-08 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Let's say I want to write an application that operates a twitter account X, and I want the application to obtain every hour for each follower Y of X to obtain the count of followers of Y (how many, not the actual list). I know I can do this via the followers.xml API but that (a) returns

[twitter-dev] Re: [Q] how to collect info on followers efficiently

2009-05-08 Thread Stuart
2009/5/8 Joe Flesh flesh...@gmail.com: Let's say I want to write an application that operates a twitter account X, and I want the application to obtain every hour for each follower Y of X to obtain the count of followers of Y (how many, not the actual list). I know I can do this via the

[twitter-dev] Re: [Q] how to collect info on followers efficiently

2009-05-08 Thread Abraham Williams
Or a combination of the 2. Use the social graph method on X to get the Ys and then run users/show on each why to get the number of their followers. On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 09:41, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/5/8 Joe Flesh flesh...@gmail.com: Let's say I want to write an application