Mark, you should implement similarly to what Google Auto-suggest does... As users start typing they send AJAX calls back to the servers that return the top 10 matches. As long as your server responds quickly, users are not going to notice because the total latency might be 100 or 200ms, which would enough to keep users happy.
-Marcelo On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Mark Krieger <markskrie...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am working on a twitter application, I want followers to be kept in > a dropdown in my application like twitter does when I send a DM from > twitter. However, since I have less than 50 followers now (alas), I do > not know the twitter behavior when someone has (let's say) 5000 or > 10000 or even 100000 followers. Surely you do not put a gigantic list > into that dropdown. But since I cannot test that situation, can > someone tell me what twitter itself does? I'd like to more or less do > the same as twitter in this case. > > thanks, > > Mark > -- -Marcelo Twitter: @calbucci <http://twitter.com/calbucci> | blog.calbucci.com | Seattle 2.0 <http://www.seattle20.com/>