[twitter-dev] Re: Design of Invite Twitter friends
Thanks everyone for the informative replies. Solves my problem I think! On Jul 9, 7:35 pm, whoiskb whoi...@gmail.com wrote: I had a similar question last night and found this thread that offered some insight into the most efficient way to do something like this. Here is the thread that discusses the best approach to get details on all of the friends or followers of a user: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread... On Jul 9, 12:20 pm, chachra sumit.chac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to design a invite twitter friends feature (similar to the invite facebook friends concept). Sadly its not drop some code, like Facebook is... I'll have to develop from scratch. Wondering whats the most scalable way of doing this? Details: #1 By friends of course means followers since I can direct message them #2 The graph API call returns ID's, I would have to make $n api calls to get details on each of the $n id's right? Getting the users name, picture etc. ? #3 Then when the user selects users to invite, and presses submit then I'll have to make $m direct message calls ($m $n)? Sounds like a lot of API calls to achieve something really simple. anyone have ways of doing this nicely? I would love to eliminate calls in #2 if possible. Cheers! Sumit
[twitter-dev] Re: Design of Invite Twitter friends
Just curious to know. Because of number three this would only work for users who have there stream set to private? On 07/09/2009, chachra sumit.chac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to design a invite twitter friends feature (similar to the invite facebook friends concept). Sadly its not drop some code, like Facebook is... I'll have to develop from scratch. Wondering whats the most scalable way of doing this? Details: #1 By friends of course means followers since I can direct message them #2 The graph API call returns ID's, I would have to make $n api calls to get details on each of the $n id's right? Getting the users name, picture etc. ? #3 Then when the user selects users to invite, and presses submit then I'll have to make $m direct message calls ($m $n)? Sounds like a lot of API calls to achieve something really simple. anyone have ways of doing this nicely? I would love to eliminate calls in #2 if possible. Cheers! Sumit -- Sent From Sony Slim-Line PSP Xavier A. Mathews Web-Developer
[twitter-dev] Re: Design of Invite Twitter friends
I had a similar question last night and found this thread that offered some insight into the most efficient way to do something like this. Here is the thread that discusses the best approach to get details on all of the friends or followers of a user: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/8e255670186b52b3/54602c14899f42ff?lnk=gstq=list+friends# On Jul 9, 12:20 pm, chachra sumit.chac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to design a invite twitter friends feature (similar to the invite facebook friends concept). Sadly its not drop some code, like Facebook is... I'll have to develop from scratch. Wondering whats the most scalable way of doing this? Details: #1 By friends of course means followers since I can direct message them #2 The graph API call returns ID's, I would have to make $n api calls to get details on each of the $n id's right? Getting the users name, picture etc. ? #3 Then when the user selects users to invite, and presses submit then I'll have to make $m direct message calls ($m $n)? Sounds like a lot of API calls to achieve something really simple. anyone have ways of doing this nicely? I would love to eliminate calls in #2 if possible. Cheers! Sumit
