It is as reliable as anything else in the Twitter API. Abraham On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:40, jim.renkel <james.ren...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In working with the new "cursorized" statuses/friends and statuses/ > followers methods, I noticed that in the block of users returned by > these methods that contain the last of the users following or followed > by the requesting user, the next_cursor value is "0". > > Is this a reliable, guaranteed indicator of the last block of users, > that there's no point in going further 'cause there ain't no further? > > If so, will the value always be exactly "0" (although without the > quotes in the responses, i.e., is a string comparison for "0" safe, or > could it be "000", say, in which case a conversion to numeric and a > numeric comparison for 0 would be necessary. I would certainly like it > to be the former! > > Either way, string or numeric, if this is a reliable indicator of the > last block of users, the documentation should be updated to reflect > this. > > Thanks in advance. > > Jim Renkel -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham http://web608.org/geeks/abraham/blogs/2009/10/03/win-google-wave-invite This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, Wisconsin, United States
