I've added it to the issue tracker, but it would be even more useful if we could have a sort parameter so we could sort by follow date, screen name, etc
On Jan 2, 6:42 am, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1277 > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 16:02, Thomas Woolway <tswool...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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, srikanthsombha...@gmail.com < > > srikanthsombha...@gmail.com> 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 > > -- > Abraham Williams | #doit |http://hashtagdoit.com > Project | Intersect |http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com > Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham > This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. > Sent from Madison, WI, United States
