retweeters_ids cursor seems to stall out

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Caveat: I'm still pretty new to Ruby and how the Twitter gem works so it's entirely possible I've done something wrong.

I've got a list of tweet IDs and I want to download a list of IDs of retweeters. I'm using the client.retweeters_ids() method and for the most part it works. However. it hangs on occasion on seemingly random tweet IDs:

eg twitter.com/statuses/743450000793927680

I'm looking at the actual tweet on my browser and nothing seems unusual. My understanding is all media in a tweet are simply link references. Otherwise I can't imagine why my script would hang (and on occasion, eventually resolve the content and proceed). I tried to debug and follow the stack trace but I don't have enough experience to understand what does what when, so I don't know if it's a gem issue (doubtful) or an API node issue (highly likely). Has anyone seen this?

Thanks for the attention,

• Joe