Hi Steve,
You can use users/lookup to retrieve the details of up to 100
user_ids/screen_names at a time. More information here:
http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/lookup
Best
@themattharris
Developer Advocate, Twitter
http://twitter.com/themattharris
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Lingzhi Zhang <lzzh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am integrating Twitter into my mobile app. I am trying to get the
> friends or follower's ids and nicknames. One solution that I can find
> out is, using "friends/ids" to get the friends/followers ids, then
> "user/show" to get the user info.
>
> However, "user/show" returns extended information of the user, if a
> user has a lot of friends/follower (say 1000), it will be very slow to
> get nick name of the user.
>
> I wonder if there is any API that only returns ids and nicknames of
> friends or followers. Or there is other lightweight approach to
> resolve this issue.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Steve
>
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