Nick, Are you using a caching layer? Initialization of the cache will of course be slow since every user will need to be looked up with a users/show call, but the cache should eventually pay off after the most active users have been entered.
Doug @dougw On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Nick Arnett <nick.arn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Doug Williams <do...@igudo.com> wrote: >> >> The second, and less API intensive method to retrieve a list of all screen >> names is to page and parse through a user's friends with paginated calls to >> the statuses/friends method > > I've been trying this out for the last day or so... unfortunately, it turns > out to be quite slow. The problem is that you have to slog through many, > many statuses (100 at a time, of course) to get the screen_names. It looks > to me as though the most efficient approach will be to use the statuses to > get the most active users' names, abandon it when getting news statuses > isn't yielding many new names, then use the show call to get the rest if you > really want them. > Nick -- Doug Williams do...@igudo.com http://www.igudo.com
