I believe that this is a known issue which the Twitter team are working on. There are messages in this group about the issue - a search should give you some more info.
All the best, Tom On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:03 PM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using statuses/friends call to get the list of user's friend's > screen names. These screen names are stored by the system. I am > maintaining the last stored screen name, so that it can be used as > offset from which new screen names can be listed.For ex: today I > stored 250 screen names, after 10 days 50 more friends are added, by > using the offset I end up storing the newly added 50 screen names > only. > > The problem is that statuses/friends is returning the array in the > order in which they joined twitter , but not the order in which the > user is following them. As per the documentation it says ... > "Returns a user's friends, each with current status inline. They are > ordered by the order in which the user followed them, most recently > followed first, 100 at a time" > But the results are different. Where as friends/ids call is returning > the list as mentioned in documentation. Well i can use this list and > get screen names for each id, but it is expensive as the system is a > mobile app and performance is critical. > > Please let me know if this is a know issue or is there any thing more > i need to do to get the statuses/friends as mentioned in > documentation. > > Thanks, > Srikanth >
