[twitter-dev] Re: Best method of displaying a list of friends

2010-08-09 Thread Tom
I don't think that there is an API which allows you to do this. Caching is important here. What you can do, for example, is simply get the home timeline (which also contains user objects) and store these users in your cache - possibly a few (max. 32) pages. Tom On Aug 9, 1:03 am, Alex Chang

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Best method of displaying a list of friends

2010-08-09 Thread Taylor Singletary
The friends/ids method has a friend of its own: users/lookup -- which allows you to bulk your users/show calls by about 100 users at a time. So you would perform the sequence of using friends/ids and then for each set of 100 ids you get back, you'd send them to users/lookup to get the detailed

[twitter-dev] Re: Best method of displaying a list of friends

2010-08-09 Thread Tom
I just ran into this one in an old application of mine (List 'em All, http://quonos.nl/list-em-all/): https://api.twitter.com/statuses/friends.json Seems to show 100 users as well, without having to send IDs (which saves another API call). However, I'm only mentioning it to correct my last post -

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Best method of displaying a list of friends

2010-08-09 Thread Matt Harris
Hey, So /statuses/friends.json is documented here: http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/friends but as Taylor said we recommend you use /friends/ids.{format} in combination with /users/lookup.{format}. Matt On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Tom allerleiga...@gmail.com wrote: I just ran