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Has anybody tried out the "How are your sites connected?" demo? It connected several 'twitter' sites hosted on app-engine. Such as:

http://liuhui0803.appspot.com/ http://jasonfose.appspot.com/ http://jay98888.appspot.com/

I really like the idea, but tested the API once, and back then it only returned something like 30% of my twitter followers. Not that useful if the data is that incomplete.

I think the utility of this is highly dependent on what you're trying to do with the API.

I was playing around with their 'My Connections' sample application and while it didn't return all of my twitter followers (and people that I follow) it did return all of the people that I interact with the most.

This culling of 'deadwood' contacts is of tremendous benefit to some of the projects that I work on (and somewhat replaces the need for me to build my own model of how connected people are within a network).

WHOIS for Twitter: http://tinfo.linkstore.ru is based on this API

Social Graph API - Google Code