Hi Folks, I've run into an interesting question that's not really addressed by the docs.
Background ========= In the documentation for followers/ids, it states: "(Please note that the result set isn't guaranteed to be 5000 every time as suspended users will be filtered out.)" In addition, it seems that http://bit.ly/lp2f6 (thread in this forum) claims that some zero-length pages may be interspersed among the pages containing ID's The Question =========== I've carefully retrieved every page of followers/ids for a user with roughly 20K followers, stopping only after three consecutive zero length pages. The total number of id's fetched is about 25% lower than the count reported by users.show(). Can I surmise that the delta between the two follower counts is due to suspended accounts? Is there a twitter api bug in play? Or a combination of both? Alternatively, an explanation of why the followers/ids total count differs from that of users/show would be terribly interesting. Thanks! -Idan
