On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:58 AM, jmathai <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
I'm in the same boat - and filed this recently: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1078&colspec=ID%20Stars%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Owner%20Summary%20Opened%20Modified%20Component
