[twitter-dev] Re: users.show follower count vs followers/ids count
So far, according to my test, that is the case. i.e. the delta is the number of suspended accounts. HTH, Chris On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Idan Gazit i...@pixane.com wrote: Hi Folks, I've run into an interesting question that's not really addressed by the docs. Background = In the documentation for followers/ids, it states: (Please note that the result set isn't guaranteed to be 5000 every time as suspended users will be filtered out.) In addition, it seems that http://bit.ly/lp2f6 (thread in this forum) claims that some zero-length pages may be interspersed among the pages containing ID's The Question === I've carefully retrieved every page of followers/ids for a user with roughly 20K followers, stopping only after three consecutive zero length pages. The total number of id's fetched is about 25% lower than the count reported by users.show(). Can I surmise that the delta between the two follower counts is due to suspended accounts? Is there a twitter api bug in play? Or a combination of both? Alternatively, an explanation of why the followers/ids total count differs from that of users/show would be terribly interesting. Thanks! -Idan
[twitter-dev] Re: users.show follower count vs followers/ids count
Hey Chris, Not that I doubt you (I saw your earlier thread on the subject) -- I just want to hear it from the mouths of the twitter devs themselves. Hey devs, throw us a bone! :) -I On Jul 7, 3:41 pm, Chris Prakoso brajamu...@gmail.com wrote: So far, according to my test, that is the case. i.e. the delta is the number of suspended accounts. HTH, Chris On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Idan Gazit i...@pixane.com wrote: Hi Folks, I've run into an interesting question that's not really addressed by the docs. Background = In the documentation for followers/ids, it states: (Please note that the result set isn't guaranteed to be 5000 every time as suspended users will be filtered out.) In addition, it seems that http://bit.ly/lp2f6 (thread in this forum) claims that some zero-length pages may be interspersed among the pages containing ID's The Question === I've carefully retrieved every page of followers/ids for a user with roughly 20K followers, stopping only after three consecutive zero length pages. The total number of id's fetched is about 25% lower than the count reported by users.show(). Can I surmise that the delta between the two follower counts is due to suspended accounts? Is there a twitter api bug in play? Or a combination of both? Alternatively, an explanation of why the followers/ids total count differs from that of users/show would be terribly interesting. Thanks! -Idan
[twitter-dev] Re: users.show follower count vs followers/ids count
No problem. Yes, a confirmation would be good. If I could just written-off all users in the delta as suspended, it would save me a lot of API calls. Chris On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Idan Gazit i...@pixane.com wrote: Hey Chris, Not that I doubt you (I saw your earlier thread on the subject) -- I just want to hear it from the mouths of the twitter devs themselves. Hey devs, throw us a bone! :) -I On Jul 7, 3:41 pm, Chris Prakoso brajamu...@gmail.com wrote: So far, according to my test, that is the case. i.e. the delta is the number of suspended accounts. HTH, Chris On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Idan Gazit i...@pixane.com wrote: Hi Folks, I've run into an interesting question that's not really addressed by the docs. Background = In the documentation for followers/ids, it states: (Please note that the result set isn't guaranteed to be 5000 every time as suspended users will be filtered out.) In addition, it seems that http://bit.ly/lp2f6 (thread in this forum) claims that some zero-length pages may be interspersed among the pages containing ID's The Question === I've carefully retrieved every page of followers/ids for a user with roughly 20K followers, stopping only after three consecutive zero length pages. The total number of id's fetched is about 25% lower than the count reported by users.show(). Can I surmise that the delta between the two follower counts is due to suspended accounts? Is there a twitter api bug in play? Or a combination of both? Alternatively, an explanation of why the followers/ids total count differs from that of users/show would be terribly interesting. Thanks! -Idan
[twitter-dev] Re: users.show follower count vs followers/ids count
Alternatively, an explanation of why the followers/ids total count differs from that of users/show would be terribly interesting. It used to be the case (at least when the feature first launched) that some folks, particularly those who have large follower lists, had duplicate ids in the followers/ids response. At least that was my experience. Don't know if this is still true, but you could check the uniqueness of the set being returned, just for grins. -damon -- http://twitter.com/damon
