I'm getting duplicates in some of my calls to these methods. I've only seen it happen in those with a very large number of followers
http://twitter.com/Wossy - 56, 000 followers with 11 duplicates. http://twitter.com/stephenfry - 120, 000 followers with 164 duplicates. http://twitter.com/kevinrose - 98, 000 followers with 16 duplicates. On Feb 4, 1:01 am, 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
