Idea #19: Big Ass Twitter Friend/Follower Page
Have you ever paged through Twitter friend pages? They use cursors in the URLs for better scalability.
It sucks for two big reasons:
- they only show 20 at a time (with no other options)
- If you go to http://twitter.com/followers and click ‘Next’…then hit ‘Back’. FAIL! The page is blank.
It might be hella useful to have a Gigantic friend (or follower) page which would display up to 5,000 friends at once. Then, implement a bunch of features like Follow, Block, Report for Spam, which lists are they on, add to list, pic, bio & location, etc.
This has been on my backburner list for a while, at least in the context of TweepDiff. I use it as a read-only alternative occasionally when I get frustrated with the Twitter list, e.g. http://tweepdiff.com/damon/nil?t=1&s=2&n=1000. But I have to cache some user lookup information for speed and to avoid the rate limits. I finally got around to implementing oauth for the api calls so maybe soon I’ll add in user oauth for follow/unfollow/etc. Maybe. Someday.
Keep the ideas coming.
Brian