Twitterholic has such a huge cache of user profiles that they know who has the most followers and can call users/show periodically to keep the information up to date.
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-users%C2%A0show Abraham On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 03:06, Stuart Chaney <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey guys, > > Long time PHP developer and am just getting into the twitter API. :) > > Quick question... How is this done? > http://twitterholic.com/top100/followers/ > > Basically it is a list of twitter users sorted by the number of > followers they have, thus showing the most popular twitterers.. Is it > a database which is periodically updated or is their anyway to get > this info from a request to the API? > > Any Ideas? > > Cheers, > > Stuart > > > -- > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. > -- Abraham Williams | Community Advocate | http://abrah.am PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
