Just wanted to supply sample output for the curious: curl --basic --user dougw:PASSWORD http://twitter.com/followers/ids.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <ids> <id>2396591</id> <id>13348</id> <id>6014732</id> <id>9300822</id> </ids>
@dougw On Feb 3, 11:17 pm, "Matt K." <[email protected]> wrote: > Alex - > > This is a great addition to the API - will make things much easier. > > Quick question (and I apologize if this is already documented): do the > followers / friends always come in descending order of when they > friendship/follow was created? In other words will the most recent > follow/friend always be first? > > I know the original followers call was ordered in the order in which > the follower joined twitter. Hoping this isn't set up the same way - > it would be nice to basically stop iterating over the list once a > repeat friend/follower is found. > > Thanks for the clarification, > Matt > > On Feb 3, 5:01 pm, Alex Payne <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Happy to announce two new API methods today, delivered in response to > > developer demand for an easier way to keep tabs on users' social graphs. > > The methods, /friends/ids and /followers/ids, return the entire list of > > numeric user IDs for a user's set of followed and following users, > > respectively. Responses to these methods are cached until the user's > > social graph changes. The responses come direct from our denormalized > > list data stores, and should be reasonably fast even for users with a > > large number of followers/follows. > > > These new methods are most useful for services that are maintaining a > > cache of user details. If you see a user ID that you don't have cached, > > you'll have to call /users/show to retrieve that user's details. But for > > services with large user bases, or those that simply want to diff a > > user's social graph over time, we hope these methods will come in handy. > > > You can find the documentation > > athttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST-API-Documentation#SocialGraphMethods. > > > -- > > Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
