I'm using LINQ to Twitter API for gathering followers for specific users on twitter. I am able to get all IDs, and with those IDs I can request their screen name and other properties I need.
I do this in a batch of 100 users (as I understand - 100 per request is the limit).
I'm also using oAuth.
So now I am able to get the info on 350 * 100 = 35000 followers.
What if a specific user has let's say 100000+ followers. How do I gather info on all of them?
It sounds like you're already dong User Lookup, like this, but I mention it just in case:
var users =
(from user in twitterCtx.User
where user.Type == UserType.Lookup &&
user.UserID== "123,456,789,...,777"
select user)
.ToList();
users.ForEach(user => Console.WriteLine("Name: " + user.Name));
As you know, you're limited to 100 IDs at a time, meaning that you'll need to make a lot of requests, which will take a long time. Check out Twitter's rate limiting docs, which explain how many requests you can make and (more importantly) techniques that might help to avoid lower rate limits:
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/rate-limiting
In LINQ to Twitter, you can access rate limit info through the Headers and other properties on your TwitterContext instance right after a query.
Another potential option is to look at Twitter's Partner Providers to see if they have the data you need:
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/twitter-data-providers
Joe
