Re: [twitter-dev] Best way to auto-discover new followers

2010-03-14 Thread Zero Hero
u. So you would start >> paginating from the start and keep going until you reach a "known" >> follower. At that point >> you should have a list of all new followers. You would still need to scan >> the entire follower list >> to find unfollows (if you need tha

[twitter-dev] Best way to auto-discover new followers

2010-03-13 Thread Zero
ever, if I were just fetching the latest follows, it seems like I could do this at a higher frequency and not affect twitter. Questions: 1. Is there a better way to do what I want with existing API? 2. Are there emerging features that could make this better? Thanks, Zero

Re: [twitter-dev] Impossible to make a reliable "cursor" on timelines using query args

2010-03-12 Thread Zero Hero
ys provide an API. If it can't be changed, it could be solved with docs. I'm not whining, I'm just sayin... Zero On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Mark McBride wrote: > Am I missing something regarding the complexity of doing this? > > Ruby pseudo-code: > > my_unr

Re: [twitter-dev] Impossible to make a reliable "cursor" on timelines using query args

2010-03-12 Thread Zero Hero
cent). It would be easy enough to put another switch that gives you the least recent, and default to most recent. That provides you will the result you want (people automatically get most recent), but allows anyone who needs the ability (most programmers), to scan forward easily. Respectfully,

[twitter-dev] Impossible to make a reliable "cursor" on timelines using query args

2010-03-11 Thread Zero
count set to however number of tweets you want to move forward by. I'm somewhat surprised no one has commented on this design flaw (which makes me suspicious, perhaps I missed something obvious). If so, apologies. Thanks, Zero