On Oct 6, 11:06 am, Jesse Stay <[email protected]> wrote: > I said the same thing in the last thread about this - still no clue what > Twitter is doing with cursors and how it is any different than the previous > paging methods. > Jesse
Is the main advantage that the new method takes a snapshot of the followers list and let's you page through them? I'd be willing to sacrifice some accuracy for speed since I'm not doing anything like auto-unfollow. From a sample set of 150k calls to the api the average latency I have (from the west coast) is .85 seconds. Grabbing a follower list serially, 100 at a time is painful. I much preferred what I was doing before (total # / 100 -> fire off that many calls in parallel). If I dropped a few followers in the process, that was ok because it's so much faster and I don't need my copy of the social graph to be 100% accurate.
