Problem (mostly) found!
The fact that the issues lies within my incorrect usage of the client library I am using (twitter4j) and that my test case for using something besides twitter4j was based on our broken twurl client AND that both of these clients returned similar results missing the cursor fields was enough of a confirmation for me in the wee hours last night. Problem: twitter4j provides a factory for obtaining a twitter client reference that can accept OAuth credentials, and if you call the method to get followers without specifying a twitter user id, it will pass the credentials own user id in it's place. My most recent project required me to retrieve followers of a user without that user's credentials and I never refactored my code to explicitly pass the user id into the method to get followers, but since my implementation expected credentials, it utilized an account we fall back to which happens to have less than a page size of followers. So when I was expecting the followers of the twitter id I used in my test, I was actually getting just the followers of our own development account. Not knowing this error on my part, I went to twurl to compare my findings and was convinced the API call itself when the results were also missing the cursor fields. I did notice that the follower ids were different that those returned in my unit test, but I attributed this to the paging not being deterministic. Solution: I resolved my bug by simply using the available overload for the get follower method that accepts the user id. Yeah... it was that simple. I truly appreciate the support I received here in this group and only wish that the other API I code against whose site rhymes with Ace-book was even 50% as responsive and helpful. ;-} -- 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
