I started thinking that also, but the twitter website shows this person as a follower of mine. So the tag should show as true, correct?
On Oct 10, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In the authenticated friends timeline, I believe <following> tells you > whether that Twitter account is following you or not. > > Dewald > > On Oct 10, 11:55 am, eclipsed4utoo <ryanalford...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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_isl >> ... >> </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?
