[Haskell-cafe] Twidge and "lsfollowers --all"

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Tue Jun 7 21:06:47 CEST 2011


On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 06:57, Keith Edmunds <kae at midnighthax.com> wrote:
> my expectation is that all followers of $USERNAME will be listed. However,
> what appears to happen is that the first 100 followers' names are
> displayed, then there is a pause, then the same 100 names are displayed
> again; this cycle repeats (I stopped it after four iterations).

Sounds like a bug based on a misunderstanding of the twitter protocol:
 the 100 is the limit per API call, then I suspect twidge is treating
the limit as an error and retrying the command, when it should be
repeating with an offset to get the next group (possibly with rate
limiting).



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