Shipping tomorrow, Monday if it slips. On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:51, Karthik <[email protected]> wrote: > > Alex, > > Any updates on these new API's? > > We are eagerly awaiting for its release. > > Thanks, > Karthik > > On Jan 23, 3:46 am, 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 >
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