Waldron, We're looking into this issue, but it requires a great deal of coordination with the folks who work on our back-end infrastructure. When you ask for a list of denormalized IDs, that request spends very little time in "API code", and most of its time talking to a back-end system that my team has no control over. We're working with the folks in charge of that on reliability and better ways for developers to access that data.
Please understand that the denormalized lists are currently provided to developers on a best-effort basis. For the vast majority of Twitter applications, this data isn't necessary. A specialized class of applications need this data, and we're doing our best to provide it. On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 00:21, Waldron Faulkner <waldronfaulk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ryan, please look no further than existing, accepted issues in the > issues list for examples as to how this platform is not yet ready. One > of your primary API calls, followers/ids (and friends/ids) is broken, > and has been for more than a week now. Since paging is not working, > and un-paged requests on accounts with many followers yields fail > whale, we CANNOT GET LISTS OF FOLLOWERS. That is a major failure, and > it doesn't feel like it's getting any kind of response. > > As I have said repeatedly in this forum and in the issues list, this > has frozen business development for my fledgling business, which I > have trusted to the Twitter API. I can't show a broken product. At > some point, you will put this little dream of mine out of business. > I'm up late working on my project, which will ultimately add value to > Twitter's business. I hope your team isn't leaving me high and dry. > Please tell me I don't have to go do a Facebook app instead. Please > tell me that someone was working on this over the weekend. > > I'd love to have some solid, no-nonsense response to this, with hard > dates. So far we've had well-meaning but empty words. > > Thanks, > > - Waldron Faulkner > Founder, GraphEdge LLC. > http://graphedge.com > > On Sep 15, 2:59 am, Ryan Sarver <rsar...@twitter.com> wrote: >> WyoKnott, >> >> Thanks for your email. We really appreciate the candid feedback and >> definitely is not something we want to see happening. I would like to >> hear more about what you mean by "not stable enough" and what specific >> issues we can work on that would get you to consider Twitter a >> platform worthy of building your business on. >> >> I look forward to your feedback. >> >> Best, Ryan >> >> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:36 AM, WyoKnott <mycro...@lifewithindustry.com> >> wrote: >> >> > A few months ago I was introduced to the Twitter API by a prospective >> > client who wanted a custom application. I took the time to learn the >> > API and wrote a quick and dirty standalone windows app. The project >> > fell through (the client could not get financing) but I have continued >> > to be a twitter user and have subscribed to this group email. I >> > stopped development on the project because the API does not yet seem >> > stable enough for me to try to produce a marketable product on my own >> > while at the same time chasing an API around. Is my opinion way off >> > the mark or are some of the other developers out there feeling the >> > same way. >> >> > I am considering restarting development on the project if the Twitter >> > API is likely to get more stable in the near future. >> >> > Thanks for tolerating my ravings >> >> > WyoKnott > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
