This is reported as a bug here: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=613
Definitely is a bug if their docs are correct. statuses/followers works as expected using the page parameter. On May 22, 3:09 pm, elversatile <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems that paging is not working correctly for friends/ids call. I > was trying to page through friends of Barack Obama by > doinghttp://twitter.com/friends/ids/barackobama.xml?page=1,http://twitter.com/friends/ids/barackobama.xml?page=2, > etc. But it > seems that every file just gets bigger, e.g., first I get 5000 ids, > then 10000, up to 200000 when on page 40 and then it just stop > working. > > I thought the intention was to page through friends 5000 ids at a > time, instead it seems like it's giving me everything through that > page number, until it can no longer fetch that many. > > Is it a known problem? Any way around this?
