How many people have authorized my application?

[Duane Roelands]

I used to be able to go to http://twitter.com/oauth_clients and see
how many users have authorized my application. Twitter appears to
have removed those numbers.

Where can I go to find out how many people have authorized my
application?
Why was this information removed?

[Taylor Singletary]

The loading of the information would not scale for many clients,
resulting in whales when trying to load your application (lame but
true). It's best to track such information by your own means. I'd be
happy to look up the value for you if you follow up with me off-list.

Thanks,
Taylor

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[Jaanus]

Twitter has been advertising better analytics for themselves about
users, apps, and developers, as one of the key benefits of migration
to OAuth. I believe its completely true, and it would be nice if you
reflected a bit of that benefit back to developers in the form of
"unique userIDs that have got a token for this consumer_key" like it
used to be on Twitter site. Even if it were with a day's lag or such,
it would still be valuable to developers, it does not have to be
realtime and with a load impact at all.


J


On Sep 29, 7:55 am, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com>
wrote:

> The loading of the information would not scale for many clients,
> resulting in whales when trying to load your application (lame but
> true). It's best to track such information by your own means. I'd be
> happy to look up the value for you if you follow up with me off-list.
>
> Thanks,
> Taylor
>
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Duane Roelands
>
>
>

> <duane.roela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I used to be able to go tohttp://twitter.com/oauth_clientsand see

[nischalshetty]

@Januus you could do that on your end as well, twitter doesn't
restrict you from keeping a count on the number of users of your app.
Nevertheless it would be awesome if twitter did it themselves, but as
we can see from the reply above by @taylor they have scaling issues
with the count and as far as I can tell, this would be low on their
priority (any company would keep this on low priority when they have
bigger problems out there to solve)

-Nischal

[Jaanus]

To collect all this info myself, I would need to operate some kind of
service on an ongoing basis. This is not that practical with a pure
client app like an iPhone app. Yes, I could build a server to collect
all the info and what not, but it would be much more convenient if I
could just go to Twitter site and look it up without having to build
and operate something.

I do agree that it is probably not a big business problem for Twitter
on a grand scale. But Twitter's success has largely come out of the
ecosystem. It would be cool if Twitter invested in small things like
this to keep us developers happy so that we could keep making money
for both them and ourselves.


J