[twitter-dev] Re: Developing Group Management Add-On for TweetDeck

2009-05-10 Thread Joe Flesh
Hi Bob What functionality would the group management tool provide? Would you be able to send tweets directly to a group, for example? Isn't that functionality already in tweetdeck? I'm confused. --Joe On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 10:41 AM, subbob sub...@gmail.com wrote: I've been considering the

[twitter-dev] Re: [Q] how to collect info on followers efficiently

2009-05-10 Thread Joe Flesh
Thanks Cameron, thats what I need, until I get to 500K followers :) On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: Let's say I want to write an application that operates a twitter account X, and I want the application to obtain every hour for each follower Y of

[twitter-dev] Re: [Q] how to collect info on followers efficiently

2009-05-10 Thread Joe Flesh
Unfortunately these APIs give you the IDs of your followers, but not the number of followers that each of these IDs has. So this is not the answer. Ordinarily I'd write my app to cache the IDs of the twitter account that it's operating so that it would not have to ask for this list every time.

[twitter-dev] [Q] how to collect info on followers efficiently

2009-05-08 Thread Joe Flesh
Let's say I want to write an application that operates a twitter account X, and I want the application to obtain every hour for each follower Y of X to obtain the count of followers of Y (how many, not the actual list). I know I can do this via the followers.xml API but that (a) returns only 100