Re: [twitter-dev] Any chance to get more than 20,000 calls per hour?

2010-07-10 Thread Tim Haines
Question for you,

Why is someone with > 1m followers going to care about which ones are
spammers?  Or for that point, why is someone with > 10k followers going to
care?  I'm curious.  Apart from knowing 735 of my 10,000 followers are
spammers, what's the benefit?

I guess that's going to be the secret sauce you reveal on launch.  :-)

Tim.

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:42 PM, deadlychaos wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> We have been building this application since 6 months now. It is anti-
> spam app which works with very different algorithms and has been very
> useful for twitter user (we have tested it with 150 calls). But the
> problem is our apps dig out lot of follower data to let the user know
> whether his followers are spam or not (it doesn't allow users to
> unfollow anyone). We all know, Twitter api consumes 1 call for
> retrieving 100 followers of a particular twitter user. Now 20,000
> calls are ok with normal users but some celebrities like Aston
> Kutcher, Britney Spears and EV have more than 2 million followers
> which means we cannot track. If they were few it would be ok but day
> by day as Twitter is growing at amazing rate many users are passing
> the 2 million milestone. So our app becomes useless for these users
> and which makes it imperfect. This is totally anti-spam app and I am
> sure folks at Twitter will love it once it does its work to chop off
> spam users. I know there have been many such apps but this is
> something everyone would love. We are done coding our app just wanted
> to know how can we track users more than 2 million followers? Would
> whitelisting more than 1 ip and switching them be the right thing to
> do? Can Twitter allow more than 20,000 calls for 1 ip on special
> request?
>
> Hoping to get answers,
> Thank you!


Re: [twitter-dev] Any chance to get more than 20,000 calls per hour?

2010-07-09 Thread John Kalucki
I would suggest that you shouldn't limit your application development by
attempting to cover all user cases. It's highly unlikely that a celebrity
will ever use your service when it is starting out. Instead, I'd focus on
the common case user and first prove your value there.

-John Kalucki
http://twitter.com/jkalucki
Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.


On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:42 AM, deadlychaos wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> We have been building this application since 6 months now. It is anti-
> spam app which works with very different algorithms and has been very
> useful for twitter user (we have tested it with 150 calls). But the
> problem is our apps dig out lot of follower data to let the user know
> whether his followers are spam or not (it doesn't allow users to
> unfollow anyone). We all know, Twitter api consumes 1 call for
> retrieving 100 followers of a particular twitter user. Now 20,000
> calls are ok with normal users but some celebrities like Aston
> Kutcher, Britney Spears and EV have more than 2 million followers
> which means we cannot track. If they were few it would be ok but day
> by day as Twitter is growing at amazing rate many users are passing
> the 2 million milestone. So our app becomes useless for these users
> and which makes it imperfect. This is totally anti-spam app and I am
> sure folks at Twitter will love it once it does its work to chop off
> spam users. I know there have been many such apps but this is
> something everyone would love. We are done coding our app just wanted
> to know how can we track users more than 2 million followers? Would
> whitelisting more than 1 ip and switching them be the right thing to
> do? Can Twitter allow more than 20,000 calls for 1 ip on special
> request?
>
> Hoping to get answers,
> Thank you!
>


[twitter-dev] Any chance to get more than 20,000 calls per hour?

2010-07-09 Thread deadlychaos
Hi there,

We have been building this application since 6 months now. It is anti-
spam app which works with very different algorithms and has been very
useful for twitter user (we have tested it with 150 calls). But the
problem is our apps dig out lot of follower data to let the user know
whether his followers are spam or not (it doesn't allow users to
unfollow anyone). We all know, Twitter api consumes 1 call for
retrieving 100 followers of a particular twitter user. Now 20,000
calls are ok with normal users but some celebrities like Aston
Kutcher, Britney Spears and EV have more than 2 million followers
which means we cannot track. If they were few it would be ok but day
by day as Twitter is growing at amazing rate many users are passing
the 2 million milestone. So our app becomes useless for these users
and which makes it imperfect. This is totally anti-spam app and I am
sure folks at Twitter will love it once it does its work to chop off
spam users. I know there have been many such apps but this is
something everyone would love. We are done coding our app just wanted
to know how can we track users more than 2 million followers? Would
whitelisting more than 1 ip and switching them be the right thing to
do? Can Twitter allow more than 20,000 calls for 1 ip on special
request?

Hoping to get answers,
Thank you!