at the risk of introducing features instead of fixing bugs, this endpoint
may also be of use -- its a work in progress, and a few details of it may
change:

http://api.twitter.com/1/friendships/lookup.xml?user_id=813286,783214

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Orian Marx (@orian) <or...@orianmarx.com>wrote:

> I would certainly be interested in such a list, but no I don't think
> Twitter will be providing one.
>
> On Mar 30, 9:26 pm, mcfnord <mcfn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, Abraham, and everyone.
> >
> > I'm crawling twitter. (But who isn't, right?) Us social graph geeks
> > have our own advantages, and our own set of challenges.
> > For example, I would not want to manage the vastness of tweet volumes.
> > But I do get neck-deep in social graph data. Which means I crawl with
> > this:http://twitter.com/friends/ids.xml/?user_id=12345
> > x20,000/hr.
> > so far i've discovered existance of 51 million accounts, and examined
> > 13 million of these. if i need two scrapes to determine account
> > activity, then i've got just 89 million captures to go! that's 6
> > months at full speed.
> >
> > inactive accounts can live with a vastly slower refresh cycle.
> > so really what would benefit me (and twitter, as i see it) is a cheat
> > sheet of active vs. inactive accounts.
> > download the file, and know the integers within it are active
> > accounts.
> >
> > in one move, through occasional publication of one file, twitter saves
> > 6 months of scrapes for anyone who can leverage a quick-start list of
> > which accounts are active, and which are inactive. i imagine people
> > could, in many scenarios, limit their entire set of inquiries to these
> > active accounts, saving millions of calls to twitter's api.
> >
> > maybe it's bad p.r. to state explicitly which accounts merit resources
> > and which are dead.
> >
> > i guess once it's over i won't look back and perhaps it is i who can
> > publish this dataset to some other newbie. but what a great efficiency
> > for twitter to avoid this for everyone in my shoes. which are small
> > shoes, i accept.
> >
> > best regards,
> > john
> >
> > On Mar 23, 11:56 am, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Bulk lookup of social graphs seems like it would be a pretty resource
> > > intensive call. I would not hold my breath for Twitter to implement it.
> >
> > > Abraham
> >
> > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 08:21,OrianMarx (@orian) <or...@orianmarx.com
> >wrote:
> >
> > > > Thanks Abraham, don't worry I'm watching Intersect closely ;)
> >
> > > > Unfortunately, this doesn't currently address what I'm getting at,
> > > > namely, if I use the bulk user lookup, I'd like to similarly get
> > > > accurate friend / follower info for each of those users (relative to
> > > > the user making the bulk lookup) in one call.
> >
> > > > On Mar 22, 11:00 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > I provide a simple API that returns common friends and follower of
> two
> > > > > specific Twitter users. It currently works for the 5000 most recent
> > > > > (although soon to be increasing) and only on public accounts.
> >
> > > > >http://github.com/abraham/intersect/blob/master/README
> >
> > > > > <http://github.com/abraham/intersect/blob/master/README>Abraham
> >
> > > > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 19:41,OrianMarx (@orian) <
> or...@orianmarx.com
> > > > >wrote:
> >
> > > > > > The bulk users/lookup call recently added to the API is a great
> new
> > > > > > tool for developers. This call would become even more useful with
> a
> > > > > > corresponding bulk lookup for user relationships. Are there any
> plans
> > > > > > for this?
> >
> > > > > > Also, I'm assuming that the <following> and <notifications> nodes
> > > > > > returned in the user objects of the users/lookup call should be
> > > > > > considered unreliable as is stated for users/show.
> >
> > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > @orian
> >
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