Re: [twitter-dev] bulk user show API

2010-03-11 Thread Michael Steuer
I guess what I¹m really trying to say is, I suppose, that for all of us who have been lobbying for a bulk-lookup method for a pretty long time, what¹s been made available here is quite disappointing. It¹s like you¹re giving us the Ferrari we always wanted, but then tell us it has a fuel range of 2

Re: [twitter-dev] bulk user show API

2010-03-11 Thread Michael Steuer
OK, let me rephrase... For those of us maintaining a cached social graph for our users and using the social graph methods to update our cache and then using user/show to update the user objects, the new method is ³useless² as a replacement for user/show, where you currently CAN do 20,000/hour assum

Re: [twitter-dev] bulk user show API

2010-03-11 Thread Dossy Shiobara
Uh, yes, we can. There are probably apps that are doing on the order of 100,000 user/show requests per hour. I won't name names ... On 3/11/10 2:34 PM, Raffi Krikorian wrote: > i wouldn't necessarily and harshly say "useless" :P it still prevents > you from having to make 1000 user/show reques

Re: [twitter-dev] bulk user show API

2010-03-11 Thread Tim Haines
Raffi, Is there a limit on how many user/show requests can be done apart from the standard 20k rate limit? I'm thinking the limit of 1000 user objects per hour is frustratingly low too. It's making me hesitate in my decision to use it. Tim. On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Raffi Krikorian wro

Re: [twitter-dev] bulk user show API

2010-03-11 Thread Raffi Krikorian
i wouldn't necessarily and harshly say "useless" :P it still prevents you from having to make 1000 user/show requests (which you can't do right now). On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Michael Steuer wrote: > Oh wow, I missed that. I understood it was rate limited at 1000 calls/hour > (which wo

Re: [twitter-dev] bulk user show API

2010-03-11 Thread Michael Steuer
Oh wow, I missed that. I understood it was rate limited at 1000 calls/ hour (which would come out to 20k user objects) Having a limit of only 1,000 user objects an hour, renders this new API pretty useless! Come on! I thought the idea was to give developers who now do 10's of thousands of us

Re: [twitter-dev] bulk user show API

2010-03-11 Thread Dossy Shiobara
>From the wiki page: > users/lookup > Return up to 20 users worth of extended information, specified by either ID, > screen name, or combination of the two. The author's most recent status (if > the authenticating user has permission) will be returned inline. Users can, > at most, look up 1000

Re: [twitter-dev] bulk user show API

2010-03-11 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
At the risk of opening a huge can of worms, how much of an impact would it be if *all* API calls required authentication? I know in my own "products", it's zero impact to require everything to authenticate. Would it simplify things for Twitter if *everything* had to be authenticated? -- M.

Re: [twitter-dev] bulk user show API

2010-03-11 Thread Abraham Williams
My understanding is that it is 50 users/lookup API calls x 20 user objects per call = 1000 user objects. Not 1000 users/lookup calls of 20 user objects. Abraham On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:06, Michael Steuer wrote: > > Erm, doesn’t 20,000 x users/show equate to 1,000 x users/lookup ? > > Or are

Re: [twitter-dev] bulk user show API

2010-03-11 Thread Michael Steuer
Erm, doesn¹t 20,000 x users/show equate to 1,000 x users/lookup ? Or are you whitelisted for more than 20,000 API calls an hour? On 3/11/10 9:53 AM, "Abraham Williams" <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > So for something like Intersect [1] where I have to do sometimes tens of > thousands of profile l

Re: [twitter-dev] bulk user show API

2010-03-11 Thread Abraham Williams
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 09:53, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > So for something like Intersect [1] where I have to do sometimes tens of > thousands of profile lookups per hour I should stick with users/show? Or can > I get an account whitelisted for more lookups per hour? > > Abraham

Re: [twitter-dev] bulk user show API

2010-03-11 Thread Abraham Williams
So for something like Intersect [1] where I have to do sometimes tens of thousands of profile lookups per hour I should stick with users/show? Or can I get an account whitelisted for more lookups per hour? Abraham On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 07:48, Raffi Krikorian wrote: > hi all. > > we launched a

Re: [twitter-dev] bulk user show API

2010-03-11 Thread Raffi Krikorian
At this time, no. Sorry. In the future, we will reevaluate whether this call should have authentication. On Mar 11, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Harshad RJ wrote: This is great! But could authentication be made optional? The original API (user/ show) isn't, and those who want to replace it might n

Re: [twitter-dev] bulk user show API

2010-03-11 Thread Tim Haines
Raffi, does the limit mean that if you call this API for 20 users at a time, you can only use it 50 times per hour? Cheers, Tim. On 12/03/2010, at 4:48 AM, Raffi Krikorian wrote: hi all. we launched an endpoint yesterday that allows you to fetch 20 users by user_id or by screen_name at

Re: [twitter-dev] bulk user show API

2010-03-11 Thread Harshad RJ
This is great! But could authentication be made optional? The original API (user/show) isn't, and those who want to replace it might need to go through a lot of code changes... On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Raffi Krikorian wrote: > hi all. > > we launched an endpoint yesterday that allows