I think this is a bug. Open an issue:
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list

You can also try using:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation#SocialGraphMethods

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 00:09, Thomas Thurman <marna...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I run a site which tracks who's added a user to their friendslist on
> LiveJournal (and allows you to draw charts and graphs of the
> information when it's gathered over time).  Two of my users in the
> last week have asked whether it's possible to extend it to track who's
> following them on Twitter.
>
> Here's the problem, though: the useful information to track in this
> case is in .../statuses/followers/username.format, because people know
> who they've started and stopped following, but they want to keep a
> list of who starts and stops following them.  However, this is
> restricted only to people who authenticate as that user.  Why is this,
> when .../statuses/friends/username.format is public information?  Is
> this ever likely to change?
>
> (I suppose I could solve their problem by basically turning the site
> into a Twitter client and allowing each of them to store login
> information for their Twitter account, but it seems a rather baroque
> solution.)
>
> Thomas
>



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