Thanks for the info.
On Aug 12, 10:38 pm, John Kalucki <[email protected]> wrote: > Slav, > > You should use the shadow method in the Streaming API for this. > Contact [email protected] to get access. > > Also, there's already a Twitter to Facebook integration. You should > consider why you need to duplicate this already functional system. Any > API based approach isn't going to forward private accounts, for > example. > > -John Kalucki > twitter.com/jkalucki > Services, Twitter Inc. > > On Aug 12, 7:10 am, murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > We are building a suite of applications for Facebook Pages and one of > > the features is integration of user's twitter status updates into > > their facebook page feed. Thus the need to get a lot of users' twitter > > statuses at reasonable intervals. > > Looking at the API documentation there seems to be 3 ways to do that: > > 1. Use the streaming API. The 'follow' method looks good but allows > > only 200 users to be followed. How hard is it to get approved for the > > 'shadow' method? > > 2. Have a bot follow the users' accounts and get their updates with > > 'statuses/friends_timeline'. That allows up to 200 statuses to be > > retrieved every 30 seconds (to stay within the 150 calls per hour > > limit). This will probably do until we get a number of users ( I'd say > > more than 20 000). After that there will be updates cut off because of > > the 200 statuses per call limit. > > 3. Use the search API. > > e.g.http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from:user1OR > > from:user2... > > Now the query can be only 140 characters long and with the rate limit > > for search API calls, this approach will probably not work well (if at > > all). > > > Any suggestions and comments how to approach this are appreciated. > > > Slav Ivanov
