On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Matt Sanford <m...@twitter.com> wrote:
>> 1. Can i fetch twitter users 'friends' and 'followers' names and
>> images, without authenticating the user or by passing only username?
>
> You can get a users friends and followers using the friends and followers
> methods (see the next answer), which do not require authentication.
That's true, although if you are doing this from a shared server (i.e.
a shell account at Dreamhost or similar) you may find yourself hitting
API rate limits.
I've done
curl http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml
which obviously had no authentication with it and seen the number at zero.
I'm not sure if these limits are IP based or what.
TjL
