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by jackolas 5534 days ago
This makes me curious is there any reason why the users couldn't provide the data themselves or poll the API via javascript?
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Since we're using BackType as well to calculate the score, it was easier to do both requests server-side. We pre-ran a long list of popular users and all of their followers, but guess we didn't reach enough people :(

If you leave the tab open, it will finish.