Hey Chris, Not that I doubt you (I saw your earlier thread on the subject) -- I just want to hear it from the mouths of the twitter devs themselves.
Hey devs, throw us a bone! :) -I On Jul 7, 3:41 pm, Chris Prakoso <brajamu...@gmail.com> wrote: > So far, according to my test, that is the case. i.e. the delta is the number > of suspended accounts. > > HTH, > Chris > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Idan Gazit <i...@pixane.com> wrote: > > > 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