I don't know what the current state of this is but it looks like Site Streams will support unfollow events for this purpose: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/74ae054ec728e6dc
On Feb 18, 5:11 pm, Jo <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems as if no one at twitter as an answer or a solution on this. > That's bad... > Or are they still thinking about it? > > Cheers. > Jo Seibert > > On 15 Feb., 11:03, Dewald Pretorius <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > 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
