Hi
Which method do you use currently to get the users follower list? The best
method to use for this is 1/followers/ids which is documented here:
http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/followers/ids
Best,
@themattharris
Developer Advocate, Twitter
http://twitter.com/themattharris
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:20 PM, torncanvas <torncan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm developing a Twitter visualizer application. Currently it stores
> tweets in a DB based on a hashtag using the Streaming API, and then
> looks up the friends (as in friends/ids) lists of those who've tweeted
> and stores those lists in a DB.
>
> In essence, it shows how people tweeting with the same hashtag are
> connected to each other. At least for iteration 1.
>
> I'm having a problem with rate limiting because I need to do a friends
> list lookup for every unique user that has tweeted with the hashtag.
> My application is conferences, and for larger ones it's very easy to
> get above several hundred unique users per hour.
>
> That doesn't even account the fact that my list could get dirty fairly
> quickly when conference attendees see someone else in the visualizer
> and decide to follow them on-the-spot.
>
> Simply testing the application has been difficult for this very
> reason. Is there another way get a list of people a user follows
> without very quickly running into the rate limit?
>
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