Comments on: Advanced Twitter Queries with the Twitter Gem

By: Kristine Shuee

Kristine Shuee — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:00:25 +0000

i just love to Twitter everyday with my friends. Twitter is much better than blogging in my opinion and it is very addictive too.

By: Cleothildee

Cleothildee — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:11:52 +0000

i love to Twitter my day to day activities to my friends and followers. Twitter is much better than blogging because it is direct to the point and does not require you to type so many unnecessary words.

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By: Jeff Paul Internet Millions

Jeff Paul Internet Millions — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:21:21 +0000

Now this is very interesting, impressive and never thought of. In simple words well done for providing creative information.

By: baron

baron — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:54:11 +0000

Actually all of this is part of the new Twitter API and the gem but you need to get it from github. Much cleaner and straightforward.

http://github.com/jnunemaker/twitter/blob/f2260a9857e8a45db01a4b18d34f6c4c4b2e4b8a/lib/twitter/base.rb

By: atmos

atmos — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:25:50 +0000

I’m pretty sure the code you’re looking for is friendids and followerids. You can get back the ids of all of your friends and followers in one query. You can do the same kind of array manipulation and then query again only on the ids you’re interested in. http://gist.github.com/71165

By: Simon Harris

Simon Harris — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:58:24 +0000

Have you tried Twitter4r? http://twitter4r.rubyforge.org/

By: peter

peter — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:18:55 +0000

Thanks for the heads up Brian Seems I had to write this post to find out these possibilities.

Of course the other goal was to show how to extend the gem with functionality that is not there.

By: Brian Deterling

Brian Deterling — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:14:30 +0000

Nice patch. There is a relatively new API (/friends/ids/user.fmt) that lets you get all of your friends or followers in a single call but it only gives you the numeric ids so you still have to make additional calls to get any useful information. But you can use it to diff the list to narrow down what you have to get from the other calls.

Check out http://tweepdiff.com. It’s basically the same concept in a Sinatra app. I’m not using the gem mainly because I’m using Curl::Multi and memcache to try to speed things up, but I may use it for future functionality.

Brian