How are you getting user_ids without having the companion screen_name? You can get some extra API calls by proxying through http://apigee.com/ http://apigee.com

How are you getting user_ids without having the companion screen_name? You can get some extra API calls by proxying through http://apigee.com/ http://apigee.com/. You will likely just have to delay some of the processing to stay withing the rate limit.