[twitter-dev] Re: Followers with time they followed
I don't think Twitter records that information. The closest thing to knowing would be to check what time the New Follower X notification email was *sent*. Or use the social graph methods and approximate, as suggested above. Abraham Vegh http://twitter.com/abrahamvegh On Jul 19, 12:18 am, niff nick.fr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I'm trying to pull a list of followers, including the time they started following. I'm not sure what method should be used for this. Here's what I thought about so far and didn't work. - ids.xml (obviously not) - followers.xml the more detailed one (still no info on the time) - friendship exists (still no info on the time) Anyone can help with ideas for this. Is there a method or combination of methods, or any idea, to get the time this follower started following? Thanks, Nick
[twitter-dev] Re: Followers with time they followed
2009/7/19 niff nick.fr...@gmail.com: Hello everyone, I'm trying to pull a list of followers, including the time they started following. I'm not sure what method should be used for this. Here's what I thought about so far and didn't work. - ids.xml (obviously not) - followers.xml the more detailed one (still no info on the time) - friendship exists (still no info on the time) Anyone can help with ideas for this. Is there a method or combination of methods, or any idea, to get the time this follower started following? There is no API call that reports the time a follower relationship was created. Last I heard Twitter don't actually record it at all, if they did I'd expect it to be shown on the main website which it's not. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/projects/twitter/
[twitter-dev] Re: Followers with time they followed
You could pull social graphs for accounts every hour and have approximate times for future follows. Abraham On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 01:45, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/19 niff nick.fr...@gmail.com: Hello everyone, I'm trying to pull a list of followers, including the time they started following. I'm not sure what method should be used for this. Here's what I thought about so far and didn't work. - ids.xml (obviously not) - followers.xml the more detailed one (still no info on the time) - friendship exists (still no info on the time) Anyone can help with ideas for this. Is there a method or combination of methods, or any idea, to get the time this follower started following? There is no API call that reports the time a follower relationship was created. Last I heard Twitter don't actually record it at all, if they did I'd expect it to be shown on the main website which it's not. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/projects/twitter/ -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, WI, United States
[twitter-dev] Re: Followers with time they followed
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 23:45, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/19 niff nick.fr...@gmail.com: Hello everyone, I'm trying to pull a list of followers, including the time they started following. I'm not sure what method should be used for this. Here's what I thought about so far and didn't work. - ids.xml (obviously not) - followers.xml the more detailed one (still no info on the time) - friendship exists (still no info on the time) Anyone can help with ideas for this. Is there a method or combination of methods, or any idea, to get the time this follower started following? There is no API call that reports the time a follower relationship was created. Last I heard Twitter don't actually record it at all, if they did I'd expect it to be shown on the main website which it's not. -Stuart http://stut.net/projects/twitter/ Your followers on the twitter web site are (or at least were last time I checked) listed in descending order from the newest to the oldest follower. Do they just keep the list in order or do they keep the time of follow internally and then sort the list in reverse chronological order when needed for display? - h
[twitter-dev] Re: Followers with time they followed
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Howard Siegelhsie...@gmail.com wrote: Your followers on the twitter web site are (or at least were last time I checked) listed in descending order from the newest to the oldest follower. Do they just keep the list in order or do they keep the time of follow internally and then sort the list in reverse chronological order when needed for display? it must be the natural database order. I believe they've said in the past that they don't explicitly track when a relationship began. -damon -- http://twitter.com/damon
