For all those wanting id AND username attributes to be returned with these new methods, be sure to head over to http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=265 and vote (click the star) to signal your support.
@dougw On Feb 5, 11:40 am, jstrellner <jstrell...@urltrends.com> wrote: > Thanks Alex, > > I too, would like to see this return userids AND usernames. > > -Joel > > 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
