Thanks Tim. So the point is, we still need to rely on the follower ids list API method if we want to maintain an up to date picture of an account's followers. For larger accounts this becomes impractical with a limit of 350 calls per hour.
On Feb 15, 4:13 am, Tim Haines <[email protected]> wrote: > It sends you an event when our subject user follows someone else, unfollows > someone else, or when they are followed by someone else. It does not send > an event when they are unfollowed by someone else. > > Tim. > > > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Dewald Pretorius <[email protected]> wrote: > > If I remember correctly, Site Streams sends you a transaction only > > when the user follows another user (adding to Following). It does not > > send you a transaction when someone else follows that user (adding to > > Followers). I don't know if this work the same in User Streams. > > Clarification by Twitter will be appreciated. > > > On Feb 14, 12:38 pm, David Giamanco <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I believe the new way to do this is to initially call the REST API to get > > > all of the ids for the first time you process this user. Then you setup a > > > User Stream on the user and process any requests that come in through > > there. > > > For your uses, if you only show users the differences in follower counts > > > then you don't need the initial call to the REST API to collect all ids. > > All > > > you need is a count of the ids and then to initiate a User Stream. The > > User > > > Stream will give you the differences in real time and you can store just > > the > > > differences, instead of the entire set of ids. > > > > David Giamanco > > > -- > > 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
