Great tool! How often are the profiles refreshed? I just started following people that are following me. When I view my profile, it still shows that I am not following them. Do you grab the data dynamically or do you update profiles at different intervals and I should wait x minutes/hours before rechecking?
Results are cached for 2 hours. So checking the same user again any sooner than that won’t tell you anything new. At some point in the future, when some other features are in place, we’ll probably play with that, and make the caching shorter, plus add a check to see if the friend/follower counts changed since the last check. Sometime sooner than that, we’ll get a status message up on the page to give you an idea how fresh/old the information is.
This doesn’t seem all to complicated, to use the twitter API to get followers and following and then do the union and intersect to show the fans, idols etc…
Twitual was created because I had a question: “Which of my followers are also friends?”. At the time I had that question, no other service made it easy to get the answer. So I wrote it. And while I was at it, I also answered the adjoining questions of who doesn’t follow me back, and vice-versa.
Yes, finding the info is pretty simple, conceptually. Get the friends and followers lists, do some array intersections and differences, and list them out. I was just the first one to actually go to the trouble to do it and present the results in an easy to view way.
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Great tool! How often are the profiles refreshed? I just started following people that are following me. When I view my profile, it still shows that I am not following them. Do you grab the data dynamically or do you update profiles at different intervals and I should wait x minutes/hours before rechecking?
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Results are cached for 2 hours. So checking the same user again any sooner than that won’t tell you anything new. At some point in the future, when some other features are in place, we’ll probably play with that, and make the caching shorter, plus add a check to see if the friend/follower counts changed since the last check. Sometime sooner than that, we’ll get a status message up on the page to give you an idea how fresh/old the information is.
What need are you solving ?
This doesn’t seem all to complicated, to use the twitter API to get followers and following and then do the union and intersect to show the fans, idols etc…
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Twitual was created because I had a question: “Which of my followers are also friends?”. At the time I had that question, no other service made it easy to get the answer. So I wrote it. And while I was at it, I also answered the adjoining questions of who doesn’t follow me back, and vice-versa.
Yes, finding the info is pretty simple, conceptually. Get the friends and followers lists, do some array intersections and differences, and list them out. I was just the first one to actually go to the trouble to do it and present the results in an easy to view way.
This is such a great resource that you will be providing and you give it away free of charge. I enjoy seeing websites that comprehend the value of providing an excellent resource free of charge. I truly loved reading your post. Thanks!