Yes, there are more important things. But for future planning and keeping things clean, I think it would be a good thing to have. For apps that cache Twitter users and have tons in their system, requesting updates on each user can be resource-consuming, not to mention whitelist-consuming.
A features request has been submitted as suggested: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=311 On Feb 23, 2:11 pm, Alex Payne <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, please do:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry > > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:28, jstrellner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I second this, it would be useful. Although, if you are requesting > > info for that user, Twitter should be returning that the user no > > longer exists, and your app should remove them. > > > Your solution would be good for bulk cleans, but incremental would > > probably be more efficient. > > > So while it would be useful, I'm not sure its required. I'll vote 1/2 > > of a +1, as it would be nice to have available, but here are more > > important things. > > > Maybe you should add it to their API feature request site? > > > iematthew wrote: > >> I haven't seen anything on the group or otherwise for a basic house- > >> cleaning method for getting a list of suspended/canceled/deleted > >> Twitter accounts. As our Twitter apps continue to grow, having methods > >> for clearing out the dead wood from our systems would be quite useful. > >> I don't think anyone wants to end up a few years down the road with a > >> million non-existent Twitter accounts in their system, and I don't > >> think it helps Twitter to have traffic coming back to them for > >> accounts that no longer exist. > > >> What I propose is a simple method for grabbing the Twitter IDs of > >> those accounts which have been permanently removed. If we could have > >> returned an array of these ids (much the same as the new Social Graphs > >> methods return only the IDs of a user's friends or followers) it would > >> help us all keep our systems clear of these defunct accounts. Perhaps > >> options for a since_id or since_time would also be useful so we only > >> get the IDs we haven't already cleared out. > > >> Thoughts on this? > > -- > Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
