The <following> data in user objects was deprecated as it is known to be unreliable. Use http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-friendships-show instead.
Abraham On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:08, ryan alford <ryanalford...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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? > -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham http://web608.org/geeks/abraham/blogs/2009/10/03/win-google-wave-invite This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
