The most recent followers of a specific account will appear first in: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses%C2%A0followers
You can check that method periodical and page through until you start running into users you already know are following the specific user. Abraham On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:12, neal rauhauser <nrauhau...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've been asked to produce an automated response to new followers and > I'm scratching my head over how to go about handling this. I have the login > to the accounts in question, we're not fancy enough to have Oauth, and I may > or may not have access to the email account behind the given Twitter ID. I > don't think a third party Oauth tool fits with where we're headed. > > How are others doing this? Scanning followers, greeting, and then > putting them on a private list of those who've received a greeting? We > minimize the amount of context we keep as a matter of policy - if we can > perform a given process with DMs, lists, and favorites it's very likely > something we ought to not be doing in the first place. > > So ... I am curious to hear how others have solved this problem. > > > > -- > mailto:n...@layer3arts.com // > GoogleTalk: nrauhau...@gmail.com > GV: 202-642-1717 > -- Abraham Williams | Community Advocate | http://abrah.am TwitterOAuth | http://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
