How To Get More Followers?

Twitter API: Twitter4j: How to get all followers and friends?

• Hi, I'm trying to get a complete set of followers and friends for a given user ... I'm using twitter4j and have the following code: //Getting followers                 long followerCursor = -1;                 IDs followerIds;                 do                 {                     followerIds = twitter.getFollowersIDs( userId, followerCursor);                     ResponseList<User> followers = twitter.lookupUsers(followerIds.getIDs());                                         for(User follower : followers)                     {                         db.insertFollowers                         (                             follower.getId(),                             userId,                             "@" + follower.getScreenName(),                             follower.getName(),                             follower.getLocation(),                             follower.getFollowersCount(),                             follower.getFriendsCount()                         );                     }                                     }while((followerCursor = followerIds.getNextCursor()) != 0); With this code i get the followers and with modification i can also get the list of friends but the problem is that i run into the API limit exception ... Is there another way to do this? If not, how can i modify this so i don't run into the exception. Thanks

• Answer:

  To not run in rate limit Exception, I suggest you to make your program do regular pauses to not exceed those limits. You can use something like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3342651/how-can-i-delay-a-java-program-for-a-few-seconds Info on rate limits are here: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/rate-limiting/1.1/limits Remember that each limit is calculated for a specific type of query, so you can for example get 15 users and 180 tweets in the same time slot (15 minutes), as i saw. You can even connect with different DEV accounts/keys (with different IP addresses) but you'll have to merge the data you get. Btw, if you really need informations at higher rates, you can take advantage of the fact that limits on tweets are much less time restrictive (about a tweet every 5 seconds). So you can try to download/serialize some tweets and manipulate their informations (they are a lot, not only related about the tweet text).