I run a site which tracks who's added a user to their friendslist on LiveJournal (and allows you to draw charts and graphs of the information when it's gathered over time). Two of my users in the last week have asked whether it's possible to extend it to track who's following them on Twitter.
Here's the problem, though: the useful information to track in this case is in .../statuses/followers/username.format, because people know who they've started and stopped following, but they want to keep a list of who starts and stops following them. However, this is restricted only to people who authenticate as that user. Why is this, when .../statuses/friends/username.format is public information? Is this ever likely to change? (I suppose I could solve their problem by basically turning the site into a Twitter client and allowing each of them to store login information for their Twitter account, but it seems a rather baroque solution.) Thomas
