Any chance of a easy way to map this to usernames? We want the friends list for Witty (and I imagine others), but we don't need full profiles, just this + username. This won't help us otherwise since we'll need to map the entire list to usernames, which will require too many requests.
JD On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Alex Payne <a...@twitter.com> wrote: > > The response should be ordered with most recent followed/followers first in > the list. > > Another developer noted duplicates; we'll look into that. > > > Matt K. wrote: > >> Alex - >> >> This is a great addition to the API - will make things much easier. >> >> Quick question (and I apologize if this is already documented): do the >> followers / friends always come in descending order of when they >> friendship/follow was created? In other words will the most recent >> follow/friend always be first? >> >> I know the original followers call was ordered in the order in which >> the follower joined twitter. Hoping this isn't set up the same way - >> it would be nice to basically stop iterating over the list once a >> repeat friend/follower is found. >> >> Thanks for the clarification, >> Matt >> >> On Feb 3, 5:01 pm, Alex Payne<a...@twitter.com> wrote: >> >> >>> Happy to announce two new API methods today, delivered in response to >>> developer demand for an easier way to keep tabs on users' social graphs. >>> The methods, /friends/ids and /followers/ids, return the entire list of >>> numeric user IDs for a user's set of followed and following users, >>> respectively. Responses to these methods are cached until the user's >>> social graph changes. The responses come direct from our denormalized >>> list data stores, and should be reasonably fast even for users with a >>> large number of followers/follows. >>> >>> These new methods are most useful for services that are maintaining a >>> cache of user details. If you see a user ID that you don't have cached, >>> you'll have to call /users/show to retrieve that user's details. But for >>> services with large user bases, or those that simply want to diff a >>> user's social graph over time, we hope these methods will come in handy. >>> >>> You can find the documentation athttp:// >>> apiwiki.twitter.com/REST-API-Documentation#SocialGraphMethods. >>> >>> -- >>> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x >>> >>> >> > -- > Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. > http://twitter.com/al3x > >
