I'm wanting to do a friend selector that looks something like the selector on Facebook, where the user sees a list of their followers' names and icons, and can select some of them. Right now the only way I can think of is first getting all IDs of followers from "/followers/ ids", and then calling "/users/show.json?user_id=" for each. Seems expensive and slow.
What's the right way to do this? I see some apps have follower selectors, but I don't know if they screen scrape "http://twitter.com/ followers/1401881", or do as I just described and simply not work for people with too many followers. My dream API method would allow sorting by name or follower count, something like this: Query: "/followers/list.json?sort=follower_count&page=1&per_page=1000" Response: [ { 'id' : 12345, 'icon' : 'http://...something....jpg', 'username' : 'a' }, { 'id' : 67890, 'icon' : 'http://...something....jpg', 'username' : 'b' }, ... ] Since many users will probably have thousands of followers, I thought I could ease the
