Thanks a lot. You made it very clear. On Jan 6, 5:50 pm, Matt Harris <thematthar...@twitter.com> wrote: > Hi Steve, > > In answer to your questions. > > 1. users/lookup returns information about the user_ids or screen_names you > pass to it. You may choose to pay follower ids, friends ids, or both. It's > purpose is to just expand the user_id or screen_name into a hydrated user > object. > > 2. If you stay within the rate limits when making requests there shouldn't > be any issues. More on rate limits can be found here: > http://dev.twitter.com/pages/rate-limiting > > 3. followers/ids and friends/ids will give you just the IDs. If you need the > screen_name you need to call users/lookup or users/show but you would > receive all the information. We don't offer a lightweight version of that > request. > > Best, > > @themattharris > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris > > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Lingzhi Zhang <lzzh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks, Matt > > > I looked at the user/lookup. I have three questions on using that API > > to get ids and nickname of friends/followers. > > > 1. user/lookup returns "up to 100 users worth of extended > > information". Are the users friends or followers? I would need to > > differentiate friends and followers. > > > 2. If the friends/followers are more that 100, I will have to make > > multiple calls to get user info. For instance, 10 calls to get 1,000 > > user info. Does Twitter allow multiple calls to user/lookup one after > > another. Is there any limitation? > > > 3. This is not big issue. user/lookup still returns extended > > information. However, most of them I don't need at this moment. If > > there is a lightweight API to just get friends/followers' ids and > > nicknames, that'll be ideal. > > > Thanks again. > > > Steve > > > -- > > 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
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