Read the status ids into a holding table and run a routine that gently matches those ids to user /show api returns?
Regards, David Neubauer 832-252-9004 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Arnett Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 11:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: Need a list of Friends -- followers/ids.xml isn't enough On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Doug Williams <[email protected]> wrote: The second, and less API intensive method to retrieve a list of all screen names is to page and parse through a user's friends with paginated calls to the statuses/friends method I've been trying this out for the last day or so... unfortunately, it turns out to be quite slow. The problem is that you have to slog through many, many statuses (100 at a time, of course) to get the screen_names. It looks to me as though the most efficient approach will be to use the statuses to get the most active users' names, abandon it when getting news statuses isn't yielding many new names, then use the show call to get the rest if you really want them. Nick
