Hi Tom,
if you do not provide the cursor parameter to followers/ids, the call will attempt to return all ids, and this may fail for users with a lot of followers. See http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/followers/ids . If you provide a cursor (start with -1), you get a batch of 5000 ids back, and the answer will also contain the cursor for the next batch. That way, you can get the whole following list by multiple calls. Also from http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/followers/ids : "Querying without the cursor parameter is deprecated and should be avoided. The API is being updated to force the cursor to be -1 if it isn't supplied." So if you don't use a cursor, you may not get all ids in the future, but only the first 5000. Hope that helps, Tammo -------------------------------- Tammo Freese FlockOfBirds UG (haftungsbeschränkt) Marie-Curie-Straße 1, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany Amtsgericht Hamburg, HRB 114558 Sitz Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Tammo Freese On Jun 28, 6:19 pm, cootetom <coote...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, just wondering if anyone can advise my on the following. > > If I request this URL from the twitter API... > > https://api.twitter.com/1/followers/ids.json?user_id=194615674 > > ... then I will receive JSON in the response. > > However If I request the same API call but for a more popular account > ID.... > > https://api.twitter.com/1/followers/ids.json?user_id=34613288 > > ... then I get the 503 error and the "twitter is over capacity" page. > > Can anyone provide some information on why I'm experiencing this? I'm > using OAuth but it's not required for the call and I get the same > behaviour whether I authenticate or not. > > - Tom -- 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
