Speaking of rate limiting, I was trying to learn the Twitter API and
Net::Twitter by making "six degrees of twitter" that would figure out
how many hops it was from Account A to Account B when I ran up against
limiting.
The way I had thought of doing it was basically the list of whom a
person follows and if they follow back its a valid Nth degree hop. Then
get whom that hop is following, see if they are following back, and just
cycle outwards until you find the destination account. I'm sure you can
see how quickly that eats up a rate limit.
Is the only way around that to apply for whitelisted status? Or are
there some API tricks that I, as a noob, haven't stumbled across yet?
