Thanks for your reply Matt. I'm using friends/ids: http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/friends/ids
I decided to go with friends over followers because the people my application is targeting would be the heavier twitter users, who are more likely to have smaller friends lists compared to their followers. Trying to keep the bandwidth down and all. But it doesn't really matter which one I use because its still one call per person and both are rate limited to 350. Are there any other approaches? I'm just trying to make sure I've done what I can before applying for whitelisting. On May 11, 7:08 pm, Matt Harris <thematthar...@twitter.com> wrote: > Hi > > Which method do you use currently to get the users follower list? The best > method to use for this is 1/followers/ids which is documented here: > http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/followers/ids > > Best, > @themattharris > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris > > > > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:20 PM, torncanvas <torncan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm developing a Twitter visualizer application. Currently it stores > > tweets in a DB based on a hashtag using the Streaming API, and then > > looks up the friends (as in friends/ids) lists of those who've tweeted > > and stores those lists in a DB. > > > In essence, it shows how people tweeting with the same hashtag are > > connected to each other. At least for iteration 1. > > > I'm having a problem with rate limiting because I need to do a friends > > list lookup for every unique user that has tweeted with the hashtag. > > My application is conferences, and for larger ones it's very easy to > > get above several hundred unique users per hour. > > > That doesn't even account the fact that my list could get dirty fairly > > quickly when conference attendees see someone else in the visualizer > > and decide to follow them on-the-spot. > > > Simply testing the application has been difficult for this very > > reason. Is there another way get a list of people a user follows > > without very quickly running into the rate limit? > > > -- > > Twitter developer documentation and resources:https://dev.twitter.com/doc > > API updates via Twitter:https://twitter.com/twitterapi > > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > >https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > > Change your membership to this group: > >https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
