We'd like to help developers maintain a local copy of their authorized users' followings -- the accounts that their users follow. We hope to enable a feature that will make this easier in early 2011.
We're not particularly interested in helping developers maintain the set of an account's followers. There are awful scaling issues involved here, vectors for spammy behavior, and generally not much value for end-users in providing this data. Twitter is mostly about who you follow and what you are interested in. Who is following you is becoming less and less relevant. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter Inc. On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Shane <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
