Hey, John. There are a few reasons I'm interested in unfollow events in Site Streams, but Tim got to the real point: "it would make it extremely easy to keep the relationship info up to date".
* My service shows you the latest tweet, matching specific criteria, from each person you follow. Currently, unless I manually check the REST API every so often, I wouldn't know to stop showing you a tweet from someone you stopped following. With unfollow events in the Site Stream, this would be trivial and wouldn't require me to run a background process against the REST API. * I have a system in place to retrieve the relationship information between two people using my service. This currently hits the REST API to check whether or not you're following that requested person. I then cache that relationship information to my database and expire it after a certain amount of time. With only access to the REST API, there's always a chance my cache is out of date. Site Streams already deliver the full list of people being followed by each person the stream follows in addition to new follow events. Unfortunately, this isn't enough for me to stop using the REST API and expiring relationship details from my cache. I could keep the cache semi-updated based on new follow events, but I'd still need to expire that information and fallback to the REST API after some time. If Site Streams delivered unfollow events, there wouldn't be any need to fallback on the REST API because I'd have the full list of people being followed when the stream was opened and then each follow and unfollow event thereafter. My local cache would always be up to date and I wouldn't need to hit the REST API or expire any details locally. * Although I currently use a messaging type architecture for the main part of my service, there are certain features I'd like to implement that would require joining across a friendships table to find all tweets, matching specific criteria, by everyone being followed by the current user (I can't use my messaging tables because those only contain information for you after you start using the service and would prevent you from seeing any older tweets we already have matching that criteria). Manually keeping a user's full social graph synced up is wasteful and I've disabled the features in my site that currently require it. However, if Site Streams delivered unfollow events in addition to the list of people being followed by someone at the start of a stream as well as new follow events after the stream was open, keeping the user's social graph updated would be very efficient. For me, getting unfollow events delivered in the Site Stream means I would no longer have to hit the REST API for relationship details. Everything would be up to date and nothing in my cache would have to expire (unless a Site Stream was restarted, in which case I would clear the currently cached relationship details for each user being followed by that stream and set them up again). I hope this clarifies the different situations where I'd find unfollow events useful. Thanks! On Sep 29, 11:42 pm, John Kalucki <j...@twitter.com> wrote: > Please describe your use case for unfollows on Site Streams... > > -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki > Twitter, Inc. > > > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 5:09 PM, tsmango <tsma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ah I wasn't able to find that. It's a shame if true. Thanks for the > > information. > > > On Sep 29, 6:05 pm, Tim Haines <tmhai...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Seen this answered about 1 - 2 weeks ago. Answer is no. > > >> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:23 AM, tsmango <tsma...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > I was hoping for some clarification on the social events delivered to > >> > a Site Stream. The documentation (http://dev.twitter.com/pages/ > >> > site_streams) doesn't specifically mention unfollow events and I'm not > >> > seeing them. I am seeing follow events, as expected. User Streams, > >> > however, are said to support both follow and unfollow events. Are the > >> > plans to add unfollow events to Site Streams? > > >> > Thanks, in advance! > > >> > - @tsmango > > >> > By the way, Home Timelines being delivered through Site Streams is > >> > really incredible. I can't wait to get this stuff into my production > >> > environment. Thanks, again! > > >> > -- > >> > Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc > >> > API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi > >> > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > >> >http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > >> > Change your membership to this group: > >> >http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > > > - @tsmango > > > -- > > Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc > > API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi > > Issues/Enhancements Tracker:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > > Change your membership to this > > group:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk - Thomas Mango @tsmango -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
