I agree, friday is a poor time to make planned changes to the API...
On Nov 13, 2009, at 11:58 PM, Jesse Stay wrote: > I've already implemented this, but for future sanity, can you guys avoid > doing these major updates on Fridays when we're all not focusing as much on > work? That way if there happen to be any bugs or problems our weekends > aren't ruined. This seems to be a frequent occurrence on the Twitter API. > > Thanks, > > Jesse > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Wilhelm Bierbaum <wilh...@twitter.com> wrote: > > As previously announced by Alex Payne on September 24th (see > http://bit.ly/46x1iL), we're removing support for pagination from the / > friends/ids and /followers/ids methods. > > As of that time we set a hard deadline of October 26th, 2009. The > original date has passed as we tried to give all of our partners extra > time, but we are going to need to make the change now. > > At some point today, the "page" and "count" parameters will be ignored > by the /friends/ids and /followers/ids methods and we will only be > supporting cursors. > > Unfortunately, due to architectural considerations, cursor identifiers > are not predictable. This means that you will have to extract the next > and previous cursor identifiers from the results returned to you. > > For example, to get Obama's followers, we would first perform a GET > against: > http://twitter.com/followers/ids/barackobama.xml?cursor=-1 > > Which returns XML similar to: > <id_list> > <ids> > <id>30592818</id> > (... more ids ...) > </ids> > <next_cursor>1319042195162293654</next_cursor> > <previous_cursor>-8675309</previous_cursor> > </id_list> > > To retrieve the next 5000 IDs, we would then perform a GET against: > http://twitter.com/followers/ids/barackobama.xml?cursor=1319042195162293654 > > Note that cursors are signed 64-bit integers. > > Please refer to the documentation for our social graph methods for > more information: > http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-friends+ids > http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-followers+ids > > Thanks! >
