Hmm that is a good suggestion. I'll try to do this (store only ids, because users can change their usernames on twitter)
Maybe someone tried to do the same widget already? I mean "Find your Twitter friends on *anysite*.com"? Thanks so much Nicholas! Igor! On Apr 13, 3:31 am, Nicholas Chase <[email protected]> wrote: > I would store the Twitter username and id for all of your users. Then > you should be able to correlate them from within your own system rather > than constantly doing lookups. > > ---- Nick > > On 4/12/2011 7:20 PM, Ig0r wrote: > > > > > > > > > Anyone have any thoughts on this? > > Please guys... > > > Thanks once again! > > > On Apr 10, 5:33 pm, Ig0r<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello I'm coding one website which need a "Find your Twitter friends > >> here" functionality. > >> What is the best way to do it? > > >> At first I've decided to get user friends list. Then get 'name' of > >> friends. And check that field in my website database. If names are the > >> same - It's a possible users friend. > > >> There are 2 major problems with this approach: > >> 1) not all users fill their correct names and surnames in twitter and > >> other websites + If users name is too common - we will grab too many > >> false results. > >> 2) I can't get all of users friends: > >> First I recursively get friends/ids 5000 ids at once. > >> after that I make a call to users/lookup - 100 ids at once. > >> My servers fail somewhere at users/lookup iterations. And I'm testing > >> on user with ~5000 friends. > > >> Is there any way to get user friends bulk information? Or maybe check > >> from a list of users who already use my twitter app? Is that possible? > > >> Thank you very much! -- 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
