[twitter-dev] Re: Follower count over time

2010-05-26 Thread mcfnord
Use the spritzer to sample tweets, but you only need to sample follower_count data per user over time. On May 26, 9:33 am, Ryan Bell wrote: > Peter, > > I appreciate the suggestion, but am looking to provide the > functionality naively in our client as we may end up competing with > their service

[twitter-dev] Re: Need tips on avoiding having application banned

2010-05-21 Thread mcfnord
If you spent 45 minutes browsing discussions about Dean Collins, then you studied how spammers caused a made-for-spammers app to get banned. If you prevent people from using your app in an abusive way, you won't end up like Dean Collins.

[twitter-dev] Re: What tools do you use?

2010-05-21 Thread mcfnord
I want to share with the group: http://sagistech.blogspot.com/2010/03/parsing-twitter-json-comparing-c.html The author compares different .NET JSON parsers, and determines that Gapi.NET is the fastest at parsing Twitter JSON. I'm using Gapi.NET for statuses/sample.json now, and it really is fast

[twitter-dev] Re: Are there any business modal for clients of Twitter (on Windows) and that making money?

2010-05-17 Thread mcfnord
Try a Plurk Client!

[twitter-dev] Re: share user account activity data?

2010-05-06 Thread mcfnord
even ever logging in to > Twitter. > > -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki > Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. > > > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:38 AM, mcfnord wrote: > > I'd love a list of id's for active accounts and another list of id's > >

[twitter-dev] data sharing relationships?

2010-05-05 Thread mcfnord
I keep wondering if we can discuss data. We're all driving data API's and some of us must save the data as we gather it. I'm gathering the social graph (which accounts read which accounts). I'm sure many people gather many datatypes and metrics. It makes some everybody-wins sense to me to trade or

[twitter-dev] Re: Basic Auth Deprecation

2010-04-29 Thread mcfnord
I think I know the answer to this question (YES), but I wanna clarify: Everywhere in the docs that I see curl followed by credentials, if the topic includes REST, that's an API that I will not be using curl for, because curl doesn't use oauth, so it cannot authenticate. i'll certainly know in 30 d

[twitter-dev] Re: App needs more calls than what Twitter Whitelisted Account offers!

2010-04-28 Thread mcfnord
I'm gonna poke some gentle fun at you here. I'm spidering the whole social graph. I'm 25% done with my first pass. I will need two passes to accomplish my goal. I hope to be done sometime in 2011. You can limit your service to the vast majority of people who have far fewer than one million followe

[twitter-dev] Re: Bulk User Relationship Lookup?

2010-03-30 Thread mcfnord
Hi, Abraham, and everyone. I'm crawling twitter. (But who isn't, right?) Us social graph geeks have our own advantages, and our own set of challenges. For example, I would not want to manage the vastness of tweet volumes. But I do get neck-deep in social graph data. Which means I crawl with this:

[twitter-dev] share user account activity data?

2010-03-26 Thread mcfnord
I'd love a list of id's for active accounts and another list of id's for inactive ones, by some sensible criteria of activity. Publishing this is in twitter.com's interest, admittedly for that large first and second crawl. I'm calling this for everyone: http://twitter.com/friends/ids.xml/?user_id=

[twitter-dev] Re: How do you store the social graph locally?

2009-08-16 Thread mcfnord
I'm storing integer arrays, a feature of PostgreSQL. On Aug 15, 1:36 pm, Kevin Mesiab wrote: > Your implementation here has much to do with how you intend to use the > social graph. > > Are you simply caching, or do you intend to identify metrics by > analyzing the shape of the relationships ove

[twitter-dev] Re: FW: Twitter is Suing me!!!

2009-08-12 Thread mcfnord
This incident bounced around in my head today. I think Twitter does not like the essential nature of this application, to contact members of its userbase. I would like to know what users of the premium Twitter Butler product included in their messages. I am designing a mass-contact model now, and