<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">James, this is a cool idea. A couple of comments:<div><br></div><div>- If there is only one definitive account per entity (my guess is that for celebrities that should be true, but there might be idiosyncrasies to Twitter that I don't understand), then we might consider using an enumerated property that writes into a namespace. This is pretty easy to set up.</div><div><br></div><div>- Is it possible that we would want to capture entities other than celebrities, or more generally, people? Companies? Organizations?</div><div><br></div><div>If so, then we might want to have the property off some more generic type like "Twitter user". </div><div><br></div><div>R</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Apr 3, 2009, at 3:01 PM, James Alexander Levy wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I'm building an app using some Twitter data, and I'd love to build it as an Acre app considering all the new goodies that are being added to the platform.<br><br>For my purposes, it would be fine to add a Twitter account property to the Celebrities base, but for functionality matching that of <a href="http://wefollow.com/">http://wefollow.com/</a>, it would likely be better to setup a new Base with a bot to keep all of the follower accounts updated.<br> <br>I won't be able to start hacking this until I return from a trip later this month, but I'd love to hear suggestions about modeling this data, and let me know if you're interested in joining the Twitter->FB code sprint. <br> <br><br>thanks for your attention<br>James Levy<br><a href="http://www.jamtoday.org">http://www.jamtoday.org</a><br><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jamtoday">http://www.twitter.com/jamtoday</a><br><br> _______________________________________________<br>Developers mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Developers@freebase.com">Developers@freebase.com</a><br>http://lists.freebase.com/mailman/listinfo/developers<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>