Hi Chad, Statuses/followers.
I've just timed another attempt - it took 25 minutes to retrieve 17957 followers with statuses/followers. Is there anything I can elaborate on in the filed issue to make it clearer? Tim. On Oct 15, 2:42 pm, Chad Etzel <c...@twitter.com> wrote: > Hi Tim, > > You said "Retrieving 7000 followers just took > 20 minutes for me." > Can you explain what you meant by that? > > Are you using the friends/ids, followers/ids methods or the > statuses/friends, statuses/followers methods? > > -Chad > > > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Tim Haines <tmhai...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi'ya, > > > I'm migrating my code to use cursors at the moment. It's frustrating > > that calls need to be synchronous rather than how paged calls could be > > asynchronous. Retrieving 7000 followers just took > 20 minutes for > > me. > > > I filed an issue that proposes a solution here: > >http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1078 If you > > retrieve friends or followers, please take a look and give it a star > > if it's important to you. > > > If anyone can suggest a work around for this, I'd be happy to hear it. > > > Cheers, > > > Tim.