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Answer 1

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You need to specify cursor parameter as described in the API documrnation. E.g. specify cursor=-1 to request the first page and then use a next_cursor value returned in the first response:

  http://twitter.com/statuses/followers/barackobama.xml?cursor=-1
  http://twitter.com/statuses/followers/barackobama.xml?cursor=1300794057949944903

Eugene Kuleshov 2009-12-06 18:09:22

Answer 2

+1 A:

Be sure you're using the right call. followers/ids gives you 5000 at a time (but it's just a list of ids). This call, too, uses the cursor to let you step through pages of users. You get a zero back when you have them all.

Nosredna 2009-12-06 18:14:39

Answer 3

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Twitter only allows a certain number of API requests per hour, and I think minute. You might not be able to retrieve any more than 99 requests at once.

alexy13 2009-12-06 18:22:58

The total is 150 per hour. So he could get 100 people 150 times (or 5000 people 150 times, depending on the call he uses). This number is for the calls that don't need authorization. Calls that require authorization are tallied separately. You can request whitelisting for your app, but even that is not enough to go banging at the API willy-nilly, so if you expect a high-volume service, you need to do some caching.

Nosredna 2009-12-06 18:33:39

But you make a good point. There are many accounts with many more than 15,000 followers. You'll use up all your API hits at once with them.

Nosredna 2009-12-06 18:35:43

they are on a per OAuth user basis - if user_1 hits their limit.. they get errors, but user_2 will still be fine

tarnfeld 2009-12-07 00:30:29

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