Alex, You rock ... thank you for supporting the community, and continuing to improve the platform! This is awesome news! I'll look forward to seeing the new methods announced ... and we'll see if we can keep you from being deafened by the applause of the developer community when that happens! :-)
Thanks again ... Scott On Jan 22, 3:46 pm, Alex Payne <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm already working on this. It'll be new methods, I think. Should be > ready to deploy by early next week. > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:15, Scott C. Lemon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Alex, > > > Thank you for the quick reply ... and I agree ... it seems that > > returning the list of followers or friends as an array of IDs would be > > most effective. This is somewhat how Facebook does it with their > > API. That would allow us to gain access to the information in a much > > more compact way. > > > Obviously this would also make the amount of data being returned much > > less, as it wouldn't have to include the status of those people or > > anything else ... we can get that in subsequent requests, or by > > monitoring and caching the feed. > > > So maybe there could be two new APIs? > > >http://twitter.com/statuses/friendIDs.format > >http://twitter.com/statuses/followerIDs.format > > > What do you propose as next steps for this? Do I/we have to enter a > > bug/issue to make the request? Or are you already working on a > > solution for this? We would be very interested in seeing this new API > > so that we can fine tune our operation and minimize the number of > > requests we'll be making ... > > > Scott > > > On Jan 21, 11:49 pm, Alex Payne <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > 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 > > -- > Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
