This is how we architected the first version of TweetPo.st back before the streaming API was available. It was a good workaround for regularly polling the accounts of all our users individually to know if they had tweeted. However, we ran into the same issue with the follower/following ratio.
The good news is that this is exactly what the Streaming API is designed to solve. We switched to using the Streaming API with the follow predicate (http://dev.twitter.com/pages/ streaming_api_methods#follow). But that was before Site Streams (http://dev.twitter.com/pages/site_streams), which basically does exactly what it sounds like you want right out of the box. -jonathan -- Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder http://awe.sm Blog: http://jonathanhstrauss.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/jhstrauss On Sep 21, 8:05 am, Adam Cloud <cloudy...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://support.twitter.com/entries/68916 > > <http://support.twitter.com/entries/66885-i-can-t-follow-people-follow...>Maybe > ask some of users to follow you back to prove your the legitimacy of your > app. > > 2010/9/21 Валентин "ValeZ" Любимов <valentin.lyubi...@gmail.com> > > > > > Hi, developers > > > My blog servicewww.liveinternet.ru(up to 1 500 000 blogs) recently > > have developed the integration with twitter. Our users fix their > > twitter accounts by OAuth and every message in twitter adds in their > > blogs. Our account @liveinternet_ru automatically follow users' > > accounts, analize it's timeline every 5 minutes and process all new > > messages. > > > It was working great untill we reached 2000 followers limit for > > @liveinternet_ru and I totally don't know what to do. Check each of > > thousands accounts for updates every 5 minutes? Ok, we can > > automatically follow @liveinternet_ru by every of 2000 accounts (but > > it's strange and not needed by anyone), but if just one of our users > > unfollow @liveinternet_ru we'll return to the same situaton. > > Automatically follow every 5 minutes to reach 2000 followers? I don't > > know what to do. > > > I belive, that Twitter is genious thing, but 2000 follower limit makes > > me sad and lost. Help me? > > > -- > > Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc > > API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi > > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > >http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > > Change your membership to this group: > >http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
