When fetching either friends or followers, is the cursor consistent between API calls? What I mean is that if I cursor through all of the followers, can I use the previous cursor from the last call to get that same chunk of followers again? Hopefully the following example help explain what I mean:
1st set of api calls:
GET https://api.twitter.com/1.1/followers/ids.json?screen_name=theSeanCook
{
"ids": [
385752029,
602890434,
...
333181469,
333165023
],
"next_cursor": 1374004777531007833,
"next_cursor_str": "1374004777531007833",
"previous_cursor": 0,
"previous_cursor_str": "0"
}
GET https://api.twitter.com/1.1/followers/ids.json?screen_name=theSeanCook&cursor=1374004777531007833
{
"ids": [
73635015,
61175149,
...
18300955,
32684766
],
"next_cursor": 0,
"next_cursor_str": "0",
"previous_cursor": -1323886329961827926,
"previous_cursor_str": "-1323886329961827926"
}
If I store the previous_cursor and then in X amount of time (assuming the user has not added any followers) hit the same URL again am I guaranteed to get the same set of followers back?
If this is not guaranteed is there an easy way to get the a users list of followers today and then get only the new list of followers tomorrow or do i have to iterate over all of the followers again in order to get the difference between yesterday and today?
