Good news - especially as I see number of lists a user is on as being an important factor affecting the (potential) popularity of their tweets ;-).
On 2 April 2010 17:57, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com> wrote: > yup - its on our list. we're working on a series of things behind the > scenes which will allow us to have volatile data available in user objects > in a scalable manner in the API. as you all probably know, the user object > is embedded in the status object, and sometimes those objects become out of > sync with reality and the like -- once we fix this, getting list data into > the user object is high on the list. > > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Nigel Legg <nigel.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> List membership is as important as followers in terms of reach of a >> twitter account (I won't say person, as bots and group-run corporate >> accounts also have followers and get on lists). If you cannot easily see haw >> many lists a person is on, you can't see >> a) how relevant / influential they are to their current followers; and >> b) the potential reach, beyond the n. followers they already have, that >> the lists represent. >> At the moment I permanently follow three lists created by other people, on >> which more than half the people I don't follow, I'm sure there are plenty of >> other people (especially tweetdeck users, where it is so easy) who do the >> same thing. >> For these reasons, I would say putting the list count in the user object >> would provide us and our users with very useful additional piece of data. >> Cheers, Nigel. >> >> On 2 April 2010 07:19, Damon C <d.lifehac...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I heard somewhere that the list count is supposed to be included in >>> the user object at some point, although I can't remember where I heard >>> that/what the timeline was. >>> >>> Until then, best solution appears to be (I hate to say it) scraping >>> the website. Otherwise, the API calls could get out of hand for users >>> on a ton of lists. >>> >>> Damon >>> >>> On Apr 1, 10:20 pm, "Orian Marx (@orian)" <or...@orianmarx.com> wrote: >>> > Yeah this was logged in the bug tracker I think the day lists were >>> > rolled out to the public, but it looks like it never received an >>> > official response and is still marked as a "new" entry. :( >>> http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1186 >>> > >>> > On Apr 1, 5:16 pm, DustyReagan <dustyrea...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > > I was wondering if it'd be possible to get the number of lists a user >>> > > belongs to returned in the User object. I noticed the list count is >>> > > displayed beside status, follower, and following counts all over >>> > > Twitter, looks like the list count may be on the same level as the >>> > > other counts. I'd like to include the list counts in my application >>> > > without making additional API calls. Possibility? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. >>> >> >> > > > -- > Raffi Krikorian > Twitter Platform Team > http://twitter.com/raffi >
