Re: Friends and followers
Hey Stephen, I have a similar app, http://friendorfollow.com. I process my data in a similar manner as you and I've also noticed some inaccuracies. So far I've chalked it up to lag in the API data. Would be nice if the data was a bit more reliable. Dusty On Oct 10, 7:03 pm, Steven Bristol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a case where I am callinghttp://twitter.com/statuses/friends andhttp://twitter.com/statuses/followerson the same user to discern who is a friend, follower or mutual. There seems to be something wrong with the data that is returned because some people who are mutually following are not being returned in one or the other calls. I have verified this with my own account. My account 'stevenbristol' is a friend to 'Croaky' and he is a friend to me. He shows up here:http://twitter.com/statuses/friends/stevenbristol.xml, but he does show up here:http://twitter.com/statuses/followers/stevenbristol.xml. When you look at both user's friends list on the web both users show up there. Is my logic wrong or is there a bug in the API? cheers, steven bristol
Re: Adding following_count to friends followers methods
We have an open issue for that. Please star it to receive updates about its progress: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=5 On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:21 PM, DustyReagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Twitter, Alex, all, Would it be possible to get a user's following_count added to the friends and followers user methods? http://twitter.com/statuses/friends/bob.xml http://twitter.com/statuses/followers/bob.xml I'd like to be able to sort / search through a user's contacts (followings and followers) based on each user's following to follower ratio. This is helpful because a user may assume that a contact with more followers to followings is a better contact than the inverse, thus someone they might want to follow. I can get a user's following count from the show method, but that would very resource intensive for me to get it for all of a user's followers and followings. Thanks! Dusty My project: http://FriendOrFollow.com/ -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Opinions wanted: a more RESTful way to update your status
I'm sitting down with @mzsanford this week to spec out what we're calling the API Service internally, the next version of the Twitter API. We're going to have a number of questions that we want your feedback on, and this is the first. Currently, the URL to which you POST to update a user's status is this: http://twitter.com/statuses/update.format This breaks RESTful conventions and is generally a bit ugly. We're considering one of the following, either: POST http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses.xml ... or: POST http://api.twitter.com/1/users/bob/statuses.xml The difference is all in RESTful semantics. In the first case, you're POSTing a new status to the universal collection of statuses. In the second case, you're POSTing a new status to user bob's collection of statuses. Which do you all prefer and why? Alternatives welcome. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
