Using objective-c blocks recursively with iOS Twitter API

So, I'm trying to use the built-in Twitter API in iOS 5 to get a list of all the followers for a given user. In all the documentation for examples I can find, API requests are passed in by built-in blocks that will be executed when the request returns, which is great for most simple things, BUT, when I try to get ~ 1000 followers, and the request returns them in the size of ~ 100, I was fixated on how to recursively call the request again using the “next swap address” returned and processed inside the completion block. Here is the code:

- (void)getTwitterFollowers {
    //  First, we need to obtain the account instance for the user Twitter account
    ACAccountStore *store = [[ACAccountStore alloc] init];
    ACAccountType *twitterAccountType = 
    [store accountTypeWithAccountTypeIdentifier:ACAccountTypeIdentifierTwitter];

    //  Request access from the user for access to his Twitter accounts
    [store requestAccessToAccountsWithType:twitterAccountType 
                     withCompletionHandler:^(BOOL granted, NSError *error) {
        if (!granted) {
            // The user rejected your request 
            NSLog(@"User rejected access to his account.");
        } 
        else {
            // Grab the available accounts
            NSArray *twitterAccounts = 
            [store accountsWithAccountType:twitterAccountType];

            if ([twitterAccounts count] > 0) {
                // Use the first account for simplicity 
                ACAccount *account = [twitterAccounts objectAtIndex:0];

                // Now make an authenticated request to our endpoint
                NSMutableDictionary *params = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
                [params setObject:@"1" forKey:@"include_entities"];

                //  The endpoint that we wish to call
                NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://api.twitter.com/1/followers.json"];

                //  Build the request with our parameter 
                request = [[TWRequest alloc] initWithURL:url 
                                           parameters:params 
                                        requestMethod:TWRequestMethodGET];

                [params release];

                // Attach the account object to this request
                [request setAccount:account];

                [request performRequestWithHandler:^(NSData *responseData, NSHTTPURLResponse *urlResponse, NSError *error) {
                    if (!responseData) {
                        // inspect the contents of error 
                        FullLog(@"%@", error);
                    } 
                    else {
                        NSError *jsonError;
                        followers = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:responseData 
                                                                  options:NSJSONReadingMutableLeaves 
                                                                    error:&jsonError];            
                        if (followers != nil) {                          
                            // THE DATA RETURNED HERE CONTAINS THE NEXT PAGE VALUE NEEDED TO REQUEST THE NEXT 100 FOLLOWERS, 
                            //WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO USE THIS??
                            FullLog(@"%@", followers);
                        } 
                        else { 
                            // inspect the contents of jsonError
                            FullLog(@"%@", jsonError);
                        }
                    }
                }];         
            } // if ([twitterAccounts count] > 0)
        } // if (granted) 
    }];
    [store release];
}

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-(void)getTwitterFollowers {
    // set up request...
    __block int page = 0;
    __block void (^requestHandler)(NSData*, NSHTTPURLResponse*, NSError*) = null;
    __block TWRequest* request = [[TWRequest alloc] initWithURL:url 
                                                     parameters:params 
                                                  requestMethod:TWRequestMethodGET];
    requestHandler = [^(NSData *responseData, NSHTTPURLResponse *urlResponse, NSError *error) {
        followers = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:responseData 
                                          options:NSJSONReadingMutableLeaves 
                                            error:&jsonError];            
        if (followers != nil) {                          
            // process followers
            page++;
            NSMutableDictionary *params = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithDictionary:request.parameters];   
            // update params with page number
            request = [[TWRequest alloc] initWithURL:url 
                                          parameters:params 
                                       requestMethod:TWRequestMethodGET];
            [request performRequestWithHandler:requestHandler];
        } 
    } copy];

    // now call the block for the first page
    [request performRequestWithHandler:requestHandler];
}
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__block void (^requestPageBlock)(NSInteger pageNumber) = NULL;

requestPageBlock =  [^(NSInteger pageNumber) {
    // do request with some calculations 
    if (nextPageExists) {
        requestPageBlock(pageNumber + 1);
    }
} copy];

// now call the block for the first page
requestPageBlock(0);
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