We currently need to maintain accurate follower lists for our Twitter connected users. Using the site streams, we are able to easily add new followers with the follow event. However, I have not found a clean, efficient method of determine who has unfollowed a user. Currently, unless I'm missing something, I have to retrieve all of the user's follower IDs and compare them to what we have in our database. While this is fine for a user with only a couple thousand followers, it gets ugly in a hurry with when you have several users that have 50k+ followers.
Is it possible to have the unfollow events sent in the streams? At least in our case, it would cut down the amount of API requests and bandwidth consumed significantly. -- 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
