Question

I just got some crazy ideas for analyzing the Twitter social graph (i.e., representing follow-relations as the edges of a graph). Interestingly, the Twitter API provides methods for creating the graph. It is possible to read out a static snapshot of the social graph, whereas Twitter is a very dynamic network. It would be great if one could dynamically update the graph. So my question is: Is there any way to get notified by Twitter when anyone starts or stops to follow anyone?

Answer 1

I believe that the documentation you linked to would definitely mention that.

I’m quite certain that you need to do your own follower-list checking, and compare results on a regular basis.