I've proposed this with Alex before, but yes, this would be very useful to me. Jesse
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Dewald Pretorius <[email protected]> wrote: > > Currently all of us are using the delta between a certain follower > social graph snapshot and a subsequent follower social graph snapshot > to figure out who are the new followers of an account. > > When doing follower processing, all one really is interested in is the > fact that a new follower action has occurred. > > To me, this sounds like a perfect pub-sub candidate. > > Now here's what I was thinking. > > Gnip.com can already segment data by person, keyword, etc. It should > fit into their model to segment transactions by Twitter screenname. > > So, if Twitter can push every new follower transaction to Gnip, and us > developers can subscribe on Gnip to the follower transactions of > specific users, I think we have a win-win situation on our hands. > > Twitter has to push every transaction out once only to one > destination, they don't have to carry the pub-sub infrastructure and > load, and us developers can get follower transactions that don't > affect our site rate limits. > > Thoughts? > > Dewald
