Issue 483 - twitter-api - Need a way to submit multiple follow requests in bulk

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Status:	Invalid
Owner:	alexfpayne
Milestone-V2
Priority-Low

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Reported by jessestay, Apr 20, 2009

I can see the potential for abuse for this so perhaps an approval process would be necessary, but I 
am running into major headaches trying to set up auto-follow for some of the users on the 
Featured users list with near a million followers. I could process these much faster if we could 
submit all the people we need to follow for them in bulk, rather than one at a time.  It would take 
much fewer hits to the Twitter servers, and overall be a much faster experience for all involved.  If 
you want specific examples of whom I'm talking about please don't hesitate to talk to me.

Comment 1 by igudo1, Apr 20, 2009

There are too many spam implications with mass following.

Status: WontFix
Labels: -Type-Enhancement -Priority-Medium Milestone-V2 Priority-Low

Comment 2 by jessestay, Apr 20, 2009

That's why I suggest some sort of approval process. There are legitimate uses for it - surely you can come up 
with some way to make the legitimate uses work and keep out the bad ones.

Comment 3 by alexfpayne, Apr 20, 2009

We can probably do this for selected, O-authorized apps.

Status: Accepted
Owner: alexfpayne

Comment 4 by jessestay, Apr 20, 2009

Alex, you are my hero. :-) Thanks.

Comment 5 by arikfri, Apr 20, 2009

I'm not sure from Jesse's description if he means following many people by one person
or following one person by many people in one API call?

Comment 6 by jessestay, Apr 20, 2009

arikfri, I mean follow many people with one person

Comment 7 by arikfri, Apr 20, 2009

I see. Well, that can be useful too - I'm the guy behind Topify.com, so I guess if
someone follows back more than person in a certain time frame I can save some
processing time by using this method.

Comment 8 by alexfpayne, Apr 21, 2009

Moved to http://apiwiki.twitter.com/V2-Roadmap.

Comment 9 by alexfpayne, Apr 21, 2009

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Status: Moved

Comment 10 by alexfpayne, Apr 21, 2009

Marking "Invalid" so these issues don't clutter the main view of issues. All are tracked on http://apiwiki.twitter.com/V2-Roadmap

Status: Invalid

Comment 11 by jessestay, Apr 21, 2009

What is the "streaming API" listed on the V2 roadmap out of curiosity?

Comment 12 by alexfpayne, Apr 21, 2009

It's not on V2 because it's already operational with select partners. Opening it up to more partners is an 
independent project.

Issue 483:	Need a way to submit multiple follow requests in bulk
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