Provide ability to remove/disable TwitterUsers no longer found in Twitter

[kerchner]

The user_timeline job becomes inefficient when there are many TwitterUsers whose accounts are no longer active in Twitter.

I would recommend adding a --prune flag to the update_usernames management command, to remove any TwitterUsers whose id was not returned in the lookup_users call (and, of course, generate a log of the removed/disabled TwitterUsers).

[dchud]

Perhaps a "deactivate" flag rather than "prune". Prune implies deletion, and perhaps loss of data, loss of records.

On Oct 30, 2015, at 9:38 AM, Dan Kerchner [email protected] wrote:

The user_timeline job becomes inefficient when there are many TwitterUsers whose accounts are no longer active in Twitter.

I would recommend adding a --prune flag to the update_usernames management command, to remove any TwitterUsers whose id was not returned in the lookup_users call (and, of course, generate a log of the removed/disabled TwitterUsers).

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[kerchner]

Yes, hence the title's suggested "disable" action - agreed that we wish to retain a history. This will entail adding perhaps an "active" or similar attribute to the model for TwitterUser.

[dchud]

"is_active" is already there. :)

On Oct 30, 2015, at 9:46 AM, Dan Kerchner [email protected] wrote:

Yes, hence the title's suggested "disable" action - agreed that we wish to retain a history. This will entail adding perhaps an "active" or similar attribute to the model for TwitterUser.

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