[twitter-dev] Re: social graph methods with a bit more info

2009-03-30 Thread Jesse Stay
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Damon Clinkscales sca...@pobox.comwrote: How often does this cache update? I'm curious how accurate and reliable this would be, since people are constantly modifying their social graph. In the case of the id/screen_name thing, the data wouldn't change

[twitter-dev] Re: social graph methods with a bit more info

2009-03-30 Thread TechRavingMad
You can always provide your own cache. It doesn't take that much to get a complete name-ID cache locally. What does take a lot of calls is keeping it up-to-date. Since you can change names on ID's it's not always accurate (though the ID never changes). It's a huge task to get that initial

[twitter-dev] Re: social graph methods with a bit more info

2009-03-30 Thread softprops
On Mar 30, 3:32 am, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Damon Clinkscales sca...@pobox.comwrote: How often does this cache update? I'm curious how accurate and reliable this would be, since people are constantly modifying their social graph. In

[twitter-dev] Re: social graph methods with a bit more info

2009-03-29 Thread Damon Clinkscales
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Damon Clinkscales sca...@pobox.com wrote: see On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:16 PM, softprops d.tang...@gmail.com wrote: It would be nice if the http://twitter.com/[friends|followers]/ids.format uri's could return a bit more useful info like the screen_name.

[twitter-dev] Re: social graph methods with a bit more info

2009-03-29 Thread Jesse Stay
If Twitter's going to allow this, why don't they just do it themselves and provide more accurate and up-to-date info? How often does this cache update? I'm curious how accurate and reliable this would be, since people are constantly modifying their social graph. Alex and crew have already said

[twitter-dev] Re: social graph methods with a bit more info

2009-03-29 Thread Damon Clinkscales
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: If Twitter's going to allow this, why don't they just do it themselves and provide more accurate and up-to-date info? Yeah, that'd be nice. But, given everything going on, it's probably not a priority right now. How

[twitter-dev] Re: social graph methods with a bit more info

2009-03-28 Thread Damon Clinkscales
see On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:16 PM, softprops d.tang...@gmail.com wrote: It would be nice if the http://twitter.com/[friends|followers]/ids.format uri's could return a bit more useful info like the screen_name. [ snip ] ... ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? ids  id