[twitter-dev] Re: Following metric is null
Ah, ok I see it now. Thanks a lot Alex! -- Kris. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Alex Payne wrote: > That field already exists under a different name: friends_count > > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:12, Kris Jirapinyo wrote: > >> So are there plans to add "following_count" field like "followers_count"? >> I don't need to know exactly who the user's following, just how many users >> he's following. >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Alex Payne wrote: >> >>> This is as designed. That attribute is essentially being >>> deprecated. But in the Streaming API, we don't populate that field because >>> we don't know who the requesting user is that we want to see if the target >>> user is following. >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 16:35, Kris Jirapinyo wrote: >>> Hi all, Has anyone seen the "following" field from gardenhose API always returning null? Is this as designed or is it a bug? Thanks, Kris. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. >>> http://twitter.com/al3x >>> >> >> > > > -- > Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. > http://twitter.com/al3x >
[twitter-dev] Re: Following metric is null
That field already exists under a different name: friends_count On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:12, Kris Jirapinyo wrote: > So are there plans to add "following_count" field like "followers_count"? > I don't need to know exactly who the user's following, just how many users > he's following. > > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Alex Payne wrote: > >> This is as designed. That attribute is essentially being >> deprecated. But in the Streaming API, we don't populate that field because >> we don't know who the requesting user is that we want to see if the target >> user is following. >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 16:35, Kris Jirapinyo wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>>Has anyone seen the "following" field from gardenhose API always >>> returning null? Is this as designed or is it a bug? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Kris. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. >> http://twitter.com/al3x >> > > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: Following metric is null
So are there plans to add "following_count" field like "followers_count"? I don't need to know exactly who the user's following, just how many users he's following. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Alex Payne wrote: > This is as designed. That attribute is essentially being > deprecated. But in the Streaming API, we don't populate that field because we > don't know who the requesting user is that we want to see if the target user > is following. > > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 16:35, Kris Jirapinyo wrote: > >> Hi all, >>Has anyone seen the "following" field from gardenhose API always >> returning null? Is this as designed or is it a bug? >> >> Thanks, >> Kris. >> > > > > -- > Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. > http://twitter.com/al3x >
[twitter-dev] Re: Following metric is null
This is as designed. That attribute is essentially being deprecated. But in the Streaming API, we don't populate that field because we don't know who the requesting user is that we want to see if the target user is following. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 16:35, Kris Jirapinyo wrote: > Hi all, >Has anyone seen the "following" field from gardenhose API always > returning null? Is this as designed or is it a bug? > > Thanks, > Kris. > -- Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x