Are you suggesting I should retrieve the 2k users 1 at a time from users/show once I have the ids? I'd essentially like to do this, but 100 at a time.
I know I can get the 7000 ids in 2 calls (1 even without the cursors) - but I actually want the whole user objects.. Tim. On Oct 15, 2:56 pm, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote: > If you are pulling down the entire social graph, why not use the > social graph calls which would deliver all 7000 ids in 2 calls? > > You can also parallelize this process by looping through different > users on each thread instead of using each thread to grab a different > page/cursor of the same user. > > Regarding the code issue you submitted, if you have the users cached > locally, you could use the social graph methods to determine the > missing/new 2k users pretty quickly using the social graph methods and > comparing ids. > > -Chad > > > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Tim Haines <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Chad, > > > Statuses/followers. > > > I've just timed another attempt - it took 25 minutes to retrieve 17957 > > followers with statuses/followers. > > > Is there anything I can elaborate on in the filed issue to make it > > clearer? > > > Tim. > > > On Oct 15, 2:42 pm, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Tim, > > >> You said "Retrieving 7000 followers just took > 20 minutes for me." > >> Can you explain what you meant by that? > > >> Are you using the friends/ids, followers/ids methods or the > >> statuses/friends, statuses/followers methods? > > >> -Chad > > >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Tim Haines <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > Hi'ya, > > >> > I'm migrating my code to use cursors at the moment. It's frustrating > >> > that calls need to be synchronous rather than how paged calls could be > >> > asynchronous. Retrieving 7000 followers just took > 20 minutes for > >> > me. > > >> > I filed an issue that proposes a solution here: > >> >http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1078 If you > >> > retrieve friends or followers, please take a look and give it a star > >> > if it's important to you. > > >> > If anyone can suggest a work around for this, I'd be happy to hear it. > > >> > Cheers, > > >> > Tim.
