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July 01, 2008

Group Friends List

A few people have commented on the small number of friends INITIALLY available when adding a group.

The list of friends in the add group column grows as more of your friends become active, or to put it another way as TweetDeck becomes aware of who your friends are it adds then to the list. 

I've done it like this since the twitter API only allows me to get 100 friends at a time so if you have thousands of friends TweetDeck would have to do some looping which could be quite slow but, more importantly, counts against your Twitter API calls. You only need to leave TweetDeck running overnight for the list to grow substantially. 

I'm totally up for making this more immeadiate so if you have any ideas please let me know.

[UPDATE] I will be implementing a single call at runtime to get the most recently active 100 friends - which should give a better starting list for adding a group (for v0.15)

 



Comments (5)
July 01, 2008
Mike Benner said...

Now that I understand how it works it makes sense, it was just unclear. Keep up the good work.

July 01, 2008

Garry Tan said...

Hey, we're so glad you're here. Thanks for trying posterous and hope you'll stay awhile. Let us know if we can help with anything -- help@posterous.com.

July 04, 2008
Kim Beasley said...

Sherman is always good at explaining things! Thanks Sherman. :)

July 07, 2008
David Palay said...

A possibility that occurred to me (and I'm posting this on the uservoice page as well) is to allow people to add names directly to the group page. Tweetdeck can then check if the user is already following the name, if so then add the name to the group; and if not then automatically follow that person and then add it.

July 09, 2008
Jay Gilmore said...

I'd like to request /second the idea of adding a poster to a group from the tweet deck screen. Maybe a button with a dropdown listing the groups available.

Thanks. Can't wait for version next.

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