[twitter-dev] Issue with API?

[eclipsed4utoo]

Does anybody know if there is an issue with the friends_timeline REST
method?  When I do it, it returns tweets from all of my friends.
However, the "following" XML tag is false.  How can that be?  They are
my friend if I am following them, correct?

http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml

and this is the first status that is returned.

<status>
    <created_at>Sat Oct 10 14:36:56 +0000 2009</created_at>
    <id>4761273314</id>
    <text>
              Disk2vhd Turns Your PC Into a Virtual Machine: 
http://bit.ly/1z6lNa
    </text>
    <source>
            <a href="http://www.tweetdeck.com/";
rel="nofollow">TweetDeck</a>
    </source>
    <truncated>false</truncated>
    <in_reply_to_status_id/>
    <in_reply_to_user_id/>
    <favorited>false</favorited>
    <in_reply_to_screen_name/>
    <user>
         <id>43065412</id>
         <name>George Dan Pirvu</name>
         <screen_name>gamearchitect</screen_name>
         <location>a giant cubicle</location>
         <description>
                Programming games since 1997. Psychologist, internet
marketer, horrible chess player.
         </description>
         <profile_image_url>
                  
http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/280718799/georgep_normal.jpg
         </profile_image_url>
         <url>http://www.randombyte.com</url>
         <protected>false</protected>
         <followers_count>7643</followers_count>
         <profile_background_color>9AE4E8</profile_background_color>
         <profile_text_color>333333</profile_text_color>
         <profile_link_color>0084B4</profile_link_color>
         <profile_sidebar_fill_color>DDFFCC</
profile_sidebar_fill_color>
         <profile_sidebar_border_color>BDDCAD</
profile_sidebar_border_color>
         <friends_count>8148</friends_count>
         <created_at>Thu May 28 07:08:07 +0000 2009</created_at>
         <favourites_count>0</favourites_count>
         <utc_offset>7200</utc_offset>
         <time_zone>Bucharest</time_zone>
         <profile_background_image_url>
                  
http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/19709051/olivemanna_islandpalms.jpg
         </profile_background_image_url>
         <profile_background_tile>true</profile_background_tile>
         <statuses_count>656</statuses_count>
         <notifications>false</notifications>
         <geo_enabled>false</geo_enabled>
         <verified>false</verified>
         <following>false</following>
    </user>
    <geo/>
</status>

So how can that be?