Thank you, exactly what I wanted to know, Mark
On Aug 6, 1:22 pm, Matt Harris <thematthar...@twitter.com> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > In the Twitter direct message composition screen we display an alphabetised > list of up to 100 of the most recent users you sent direct messages to. > > Hope that helps, > Matt > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Mark Krieger <markskrie...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > Thanks, one of my colleagues, who is more ajax-savvy than me, > > suggested similar just a few > > minutes ago. > > > I appreciate your advice. We will do this, but I probably not top > > priority. > > > I still wonder what twitter does, since someone I know who does have > > many followers could not > > explain what twitter does with his DM followers dropdown.... > > > Thanks again, > > > Mark > > > On Aug 4, 11:40 am, Marcelo Calbucci <marc...@calbucci.com> wrote: > > > 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/> > > -- > > Matt Harris > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris