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

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