Wonderful news !!! We will be using for our social search engine application. Thanks for coming up with these new API for friends and followers ids. I apprecaite it.
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:01 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 at > http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST-API-Documentation#SocialGraphMethods. > > -- > Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. > http://twitter.com/al3x > > -- Sincerely, Burhan Tanweer Founder www.CorrectSearch.com Phone: 877-807-1818 [email protected]
