If I'm not mistaken, that still requires you to page through 5000 at a
time until you reach the end to figure out the number of followers. I
don't need the user ids of each follower, just the count. Being able
to get this with users/show is perfect because it only requires one
API call. Except
The friend/follower counts are TOTALLY off. Why can't new features be
introduced without breaking critical existing features? When will
this be fixed. Many of us rely on these counts for accurate f/f
counts!
On Sep 4, 8:49 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote:
The 5k limit is a bug.
Again, I can't stress this enough - when bugs like this are introduced, it
is imperative that follow limits are also removed temporarily (or on a
case-by-case basis) so we can make this up to our users. I've already had
to issue refunds to a couple due to this. If you need me to send you the
Jesse,
Last night when this thing hit I actually immediately thought about
you and wondered how it impacted you.
I'm now thanking my lucky stars that I don't do mass unfollow. I do
have the unfollow those who unfollow me feature, but I have limited
it to a maximum of 10 unfollows every 8 hours,
Fortunately it only affected a couple users, but I'd like to make it up to
them. BTW, this didn't affect the mass unfollow feature you saw Scoble and
others using (that would have worked fine). This affected the unfollow
those who unfollow me feature. We have safety valves in place as well, but
I would have built in something like doing an array diff before doing
any unfollow, and if the diff is 10%+ of the old followers list, then
just bail and do nothing.
Even the mass unfollow would not have worked, if the API returned only
5,000 friends instead of the full list, correct?
Dewald
Until today you could use:
http://twitter.com/followers/ids.xml
and get the total - this was way more accurate than getting it from
user/show. They appear to ahve just lowerd this total to 5000 so that
will no longer work (unless that's a bug).
On Sep 3, 7:24 am, Waldron Faulkner
The 5k limit is a bug. Working to fix.
On Sep 4, 6:51 pm, freefall tehgame...@googlemail.com wrote:
Until today you could use:http://twitter.com/followers/ids.xml
and get the total - this was way more accurate than getting it from
user/show. They appear to ahve just lowerd this total to 5000
Same oddness w. friends count as well? I'd guess so.
My problem is that if I try to get followers using paging, I get
different numbers (and different followers) than if I pull the entire
list w/o paging. Also, followers disappear and reappear from one hour
to the next.
On Sep 2, 5:44 pm, Jason
I hope you find out. I long ago gave up. If I really needed the
feature, I would scrape that one out of the html, which I know is
frowned upon, however, as your data shows, this is pretty all over the
map.
On Sep 2, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Jason Tan wrote:
Anyways, to get back to my
I can confirm this now. I just pulled the remaining followers that were not
in the paged follower-list, but exist in the social-graph.
So far all of them are suspended account.
I guess with the paged list, the API only brings back the ones that are
active.
Chris
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 7:37 PM,
Where
are the other 200 go ?
To answer your questions, chances are that these 200 accounts have
been disabled (probably for being spam accounts), but I noticed there
are still counted in the number of followers.
Tim
Others have also noticed that some accounts show up multiple times in the
list of followers when retrieved via the API. Not sure why that happens,
but it does.
- h
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:37, Tim timot...@gmail.com wrote:
Where
are the other 200 go ?
To answer your questions, chances
Thanks Matt for pointing to the right place.
Hope that this issue can be resolved quickly, because the alternative
of hitting the individual user for all followers would be a disaster.
Chris
On Jul 2, 3:27 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:
Hi Chris,
Welcome to the group! Take a
This is a known issue:
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=580
Thanks,
Doug
--
Doug Williams
Twitter Platform Support
http://twitter.com/dougw
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:58 AM, alon alon.car...@gmail.com wrote:
I filed abug on this but im wondering if someone else is
So does this also create the scenario where followers (not count) called via
the api are different than the followers on the site? I have a client who
has spam followers appearing on our site when we call followers method via
the api and the same followers are not under her account on the site.
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