Just need number of followers and number of friends. Method 1: users/show and use the followers_count and friends_count values. Problem: The numbers are updating only on a status update. Example: At last status update if followers_count was 2420 and then there have been 30 more followers. Unless there is a status update, the followers_count does not change to 2450.
Method 2: statuses/friends and statuses/followers looping through each page. This is an unnecessary strain on the API system and secondly, when twitter is loaded, this method takes forever or breaks. Method 3: Yet to try, can use social graph methods and count the number of IDs returned. Could someone suggest which of these methods is recommended or if there is a more efficient method. Thanks
