Since the vast majority of twitter users won't ever visit your site, why not just create a page if that user or a friend visits?
Check out how wefollow.com does it, it works well. On Oct 1, 12:40 pm, Rajiv Kaushal <kalyanra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Taylor, > > Thanks for clarification. Actually, my thought was to create new page for > every user on website signing up on twitter where one can update his other > information later. > > Next, Can I get list of users for particular > category/suggestion[e.g Business, Family, Fashion] not with respect to > particular user? If yes, how and what is the limit for that api on the > number of users? > > Thanks and Regards, > > Rajiv > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Taylor Singletary < > > > > > > > > > > taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> wrote: > > Hi there, > > > We don't provide any kind of feed/API for polling new signups. > > > Generally, with any service that has a large user base, the motives of an > > organization or developer that wants "the database of users from <insert > > service name here>" will be suspect. > > > What's the use case that you'd want/employ this information? > > > We provide some categorical data of Twitter users available through GET > > users/suggestions (http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/suggestions) and > > its companion resources. > > > Taylor > > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:07 AM, rajiv74 <kalyanra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> Can I get the list of users registering on twitter on daily > >> basis or date wise using twitter api? Can I also get the list of > >> twitter users category wise? Please help as I need to implement this > >> in one of my site. If there is no way, can you help me to suggest > >> alternate way to get the database of users from twitter? > > >> Thanks, > > >> Rajiv > > >> -- > >> 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 > > > -- > > 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 > > -- > > Rajiv Kaushal > Software Engineer -- 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
