It seems from the examples, but not explicitly stated anywhere, that the values of the following and followed_by items are booleans, implying that a user either is or is not following another user.
While at first blush that seems true, I think in reality the situation is a little more complicated, especially if you consider protected users. I would propose that these items be enumerations, with the following values and meanings: - "yes": user A, say, is following user B; - "no": user A is not following user B, has not requested the relationship, and is not blocked from doing so; - "pending": user A has requested to follow (protected) user B, but B has not yet accepted, rejected, or blocked the request; and - "blocked": user A requested to follow (protected) user B, but B blocked the request. What I'm looking for here is parity, if you will, between the data and facilities that are available to the twitter.com web site and to API users. This is one place where there was not parity, and we have the opportunity to now get it. Comments expected, welcome, and appreciated. Jim Renkel On Jun 9, 1:13 pm, Damon Clinkscales <sca...@pobox.com> wrote: > If you're going to redefine the way that follow information is > returned, I believe that it should include the effect of "protected" > accounts on both sides of the follow equation. > > Thanks, > -damon > --http://twitter.com/damon > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Marcel Molina<mar...@twitter.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion Chad. > > What do others think of > > {"relationship": { > > "source": { > > "id": 123, > > "screen_name": "bob", > > "notifications": false }, > > > "target": { > > "id": 456, > > "screen_name": "jack", > > "notifications": null }, > > > "source_follows_target": true, > > "source_followed_by_target": false > > } > > } > > versus > > > {"relationship": { > > > "source": { > > > "id": 123, > > > "screen_name": "bob", > > > "following": true, > > > "followed_by": false, > > > "notifications_enabled": false }, > > > "target": { > > > "id": 456, > > > "screen_name": "jack", > > > "following": false, > > > "followed_by": true, > > > "notifications_enabled": null } > > > } > > > }
