[twitter-dev] Re: Following a large number of users

2009-08-12 Thread David Fisher
Streaming methods are your friend. Start with the follow method, and email the API team about getting Shadow. If your use is legit (likely) then they'll give you Shadow. If/when you outstrip Shadow they will likely upgrade you then. The only caveat to streaming is that if you miss some time

[twitter-dev] Re: Following a large number of users

2009-08-12 Thread John Kalucki
Slav, You should use the shadow method in the Streaming API for this. Contact a...@twitter.com to get access. Also, there's already a Twitter to Facebook integration. You should consider why you need to duplicate this already functional system. Any API based approach isn't going to forward