Twitter Groups:  I am adding the ability to create custom 'groups' of
twitter users to my site.  My current approach seems very processor/
twitter api intensive.  Can anyone make a recommendation or refer me
to a link where I can find information on how I might more efficiently
code this feature?

Any help is appreciated.

Current Approach:
1. User can put n users in a group
2. User clicks their group to view the timeline
3. Iterate through all 'n' users in the group and get the respective
user's timelines
4. Merge the timelines into a collection.
5. Sort the timelines by date
6. Bind this collection to the display grid.
7. This timeline is immediately out of date of course so a click of
the 'refresh' button triggers the need to do the entire process again.

An example might have 80 users in the group called "colleagues". I
would then call Twitter 80 times to get the 80 disparate timelines.
Next I would merge and sort the collection.  This would have to be
repeated upon each refresh or selection of a different group.

Thanks in advance!

Ryan

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