and regarding the api: twitter has updated it so that I can query a huge list of IDs (with paging), then in a second query, submit up to 100 ids and get data ba

and regarding the api: twitter has updated it so that I can query a huge list of IDs (with paging), then in a second query, submit up to 100 ids and get data back (iterating in packs of 100) ... it's probably not solving the issue fully, for Barack that is, but for most of us, it should.