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Thanks for the feedback - Twitter does only return 5000 followers and following and I'll try to add support for high-profile people in the future. There is the

Thanks for the feedback - Twitter does only return 5000 followers and following and I'll try to add support for high-profile people in the future. There is the issue of the 150 requests per hour limit that Twitter has per IP which means that it can't work on really big people without using a service like DataSift.

joelg87 14y ago
Hi Simon. The rate limiting is per Twitter credentials once authorized through OAuth, so you shouldn't have any issues there :)
- jarofgreen 14y ago
  Actually you are still rate limited when using OAuth credentials, it's just a higher rate. If you can get users to log-in to your app and can then call the API with many different credentials it does help a lot tho. I did a twitter hack at a recent hackday, and had massive problems with this. :-) http://jarofgreen.co.uk/2012/04/flocklight/ http://jarofgreen.co.uk/2012/04/flocklight/ (It's Open Source if anyone wants to help)
dustyreagan 14y ago
Does DataSift have a service that returns up to date follower data? I thought they dealt only in Tweet streams.
jarofgreen 14y ago
Have you actually read the DataSift TOS? I did, and it was completely unusable for what I wanted. (Last year, may have changed.) Basically if you payed them and extracted info you then couldn't make it publicly available. You also had to charge anyone you gave the information to. Which kinda makes sense, but rules out a lot of apps.