Just wanted to mention-- updated my app to use these new methods, and now one routine that took OVER 14 minutes to run is now under 1 minute... what an excellent difference. Thanks y'all. -Eric
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'socialgraphs. > 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'ssocialgraphchanges. 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'ssocialgraphover 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