It will of course depend on your definition of active, but I think 10%
is a very gracious number.
According to my data only 15% of all twitter accounts have posted more
than times.
On Jun 10, 11:28 pm, lucy a.downy.h...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I know that retrieving a random user sample is an
Yeah, it definately not users, just IDs. Out of the (now) 44.8+ user
IDs about half are actual user accounts that haven't been deleted or
banned.
That's accounts, it counts multiple accounts from the same person as
individual accounts.
Twitter IDs are sequentially assigned. This is easily
There are a little over 44.5 million twitter IDs as of right now
(10:10pm cst 6/3/9) with what seems to be about 10 being added every
second.
I was wondering if there would be any way that Twitter could publish
an RSS feed of when certain profile items are changed? I could use
this to keep up-to-date my user database instead of occasionally
cycling through all active users to check for name changes (as an
example).
Things this RSS
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
If all you guys are looking for is a list of followers or friends,
have you tried using the new social calls for friends and followers:
http://twitter.com/followers/ids.xml?user_id=##
http://twitter.com/friends/ids.xml?user_id=#
You can also use these calls with screen_name using
