Check out the section about whitelisting: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting
Abraham On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 02:44, Alan Gutierrez <a...@blogometer.com> wrote: > Although million follower accounts are rare, how to I design for a million > follower user logged into my application which users Social Graph API? > > If Barack Obama were to log into my application, it would take 566 API > calls to fetch his 2,828,782 followers, but I wouldn't have any left after > the 150 API calls to fetch his 747,127 friends. > > Obviously, I'd like to work my way through the list a little bit each hour. > I'd like to store the cursor after 30 API calls, resume my iteration over an > hour later. > > When do cursors expire? I assume they will still be valid an hour later, > but I've seen discussion on this group that says that they are opaque and > that they may change at some point. I suppose that when that time goes, if > my application is crawling a celebrity, it will not be able to resume > crawling with the cursor it stored an hour before. > > Alan Gutierrez > http://twitter.com/bigeasy > -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Project | Intersect | http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, WI, United States
