Hi Mark,
In the Twitter direct message composition screen we display an alphabetised
list of up to 100 of the most recent users you sent direct messages to.
Hope that helps,
Matt
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Mark Krieger markskrie...@gmail.comwrote:
Thanks, one of my colleagues, who is more ajax-savvy than me,
suggested similar just a few
minutes ago.
I appreciate your advice. We will do this, but I probably not top
priority.
I still wonder what twitter does, since someone I know who does have
many followers could not
explain what twitter does with his DM followers dropdown
Thanks again,
Mark
On Aug 4, 11:40 am, Marcelo Calbucci marc...@calbucci.com wrote:
Mark, you should implement similarly to what Google Auto-suggest does...
As
users start typing they send AJAX calls back to the servers that return
the
top 10 matches. As long as your server responds quickly, users are not
going
to notice because the total latency might be 100 or 200ms, which would
enough to keep users happy.
-Marcelo
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Mark Krieger markskrie...@gmail.com
wrote:
I am working on a twitter application, I want followers to be kept in
a dropdown in my application like twitter does when I send a DM from
twitter. However, since I have less than 50 followers now (alas), I do
not know the twitter behavior when someone has (let's say) 5000 or
1 or even 10 followers. Surely you do not put a gigantic list
into that dropdown. But since I cannot test that situation, can
someone tell me what twitter itself does? I'd like to more or less do
the same as twitter in this case.
thanks,
Mark
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