> Can you please address the issue of how you would recommend that an > application be able to fetch the total list of a users followers? I'm > hearing all sorts of accusations and bluster, but want to understand > from your perspective how you would propose an application do this?
Right now, you can page through the lists of friends and followers. We'll see about ways to get the friends list in one shot. I think our best bet for a method that returns the entire set of friends or followers would be simply returning an array of user IDs. > Even here on the list there are people suggesting that you enhance the > API to simply drop the current status ... and only return the list of > followers ... which would seem to be a much simpler, and less > intensive, query. We'll certainly consider that. > As a side note, we are currently working on three twitter > applications ... two that are hosted services, and one that is a > desktop application. I want to ensure that we continue to build these > fully understanding how to work cooperatively with you! All you need to do is send us an email, and we'll find solutions. It may take some time if the solution you need isn't on our development roadmap, but we're here to make it happen. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
