On Apr 29, 10:52 am, Craig Hockenberry <craig.hockenbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > If a user has protected updates, a call to /friendships/exists returns > a 403. That, combined with an empty or inaccurate "following" value in > the user data returned by the API means that there's no way for a > client to get the current following status of a protected user.
I don't really understand why this call returns a 403 when statuses are protected. If you ignore "pending" for the moment (or throw it in with the "false" bucket), the follows/followed information is available through friends/ids and followers/ids, so I don't think the same information should be covered by the "protected" flag in this different call.
