There is no snapshotting. 5,000 edges are returned on each call. Few users have more than 5,000 followers or more than 5,000 followings.
-John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Oct 6, 11:58 am, jmathai <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
