Hello, John. Thank you for the referral to Spritzer. I will re-structure my data model to benefit from its activity indications.
I have throttled back and will approach you directly when I have production code serving Twitter users. I have 100,000 opt-ins and 3,000 paying customers for two data products (LJMindMap and Radar) on LiveJournal.com. I also produce results for academics studying social network patterns there, but I am a commercial provider of individualized social graph services for users, not for studies. Regards, John Dempsey On Mar 26, 6:55 am, John Kalucki <j...@twitter.com> wrote: > Stop doing this. You are stressing the system and producing questionable > results. You run a very high risk of blacklisting. Also, there are many many > existing studies that go over this same ground of active users and break the > data down in painstaking detail. > > Instead, take the Spritzer sample feed on the Streaming API if you must > collect this data. This feed will, over time, give you a very accurate > picture of "active accounts", which I think you mean "tweeting accounts". > Many users are "active" without tweeting, or without even ever logging in to > Twitter. > > -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki > Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. > > > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:38 AM, mcfnord <mcfn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'd love a list of id's for active accounts and another list of id's > > for inactive ones, by some sensible criteria of activity. Publishing > > this is in twitter.com's interest, admittedly for that large first and > > second crawl. I'm calling this for everyone: > > >http://twitter.com/friends/ids.xml/?user_id=12345 > > > And I need to call it again after some time passes to determine > > activity. Maybe there's a good alternative? I'm not belly-aching about > > the two complete canvases, but I think i calculated that it takes my > > whitelisted application 145 days to complete from now, consuming its > > full allotment of 20k every hour of every day. Is that right? well > > it's close. > > > I'm very new to the scene so please tip me off if there's a shortcut > > datasource that reports inactive accounts, so i can dial api traffic > > about inactives way back. i'd love a bulk appraisal of account > > activity/inactivity as a binary condition or in any other flavor > > (status update is another sensible source as an activity inference). > > all clues appreciated. > > > thanks cats! > > > john > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+ > > unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE > > ME" as the subject.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
