Re: [twitter-dev] Best way to auto-discover new followers

2010-03-14 Thread Josh Roesslein
A method via the streaming API to get friendship / follower updates would be nice. Now it may be better to use the users/followers method instead of followers/ids. The reason is this is ordered from newest to oldest based on when the user followed you. So you would start paginating from the start

Re: [twitter-dev] Best way to auto-discover new followers

2010-03-14 Thread Josh Roesslein
Oh and also the benefit of users/followers is it includes all the user information. If you are just maintaining a social graph of ids, then pulling down all the ids via followers/ids would be the way to go. I think for most users this just requires a few requests. Josh On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at

Re: [twitter-dev] Best way to auto-discover new followers

2010-03-14 Thread Zero Hero
Thanks for the tip, I do have to augment the information by fetching the user info with a second call, so this will eliminate all that messiness. On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Josh Roesslein jroessl...@gmail.comwrote: Oh and also the benefit of users/followers is it includes all the user