The <following> element was deprecated in May 2009 as it was unreliable. Maybe the deprecation has seen been deprecated...
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/42ba883b9f8e3c6e?tvc=2 Abraham ------------- Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate | http://abrah.am @abraham | http://projects.abrah.am | http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 06:24, cballou <ball...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm looking for clarification on the call to user:statuses/friends. I > noticed that in the returned results there is a "following" field. It > appears as though this field indicates whether or not the screen_name > supplied in the request is following the given user. This > information, to me, seems quite obvious. We're making a request to > retrieve friends after all; it is automatically assumed we're grabbing > Mr. screen_name's friends > > The functionality I would like to see, and I believe would be > beneficial meta-data for numerous applications, is that the > "following" field feeds you a boolean value as to whether the user > result is following the user associated to screen_name. > > If I have misinterpreted the field, my apologies. > > In the API Console, all returned results for my own personal > screen_name returned "following" as TRUE, and I know a number of those > individuals off the top of my head are not following me. > > Could we get this meta-data implemented in the response? I'd be > willing to discuss in more detail, I need the information without > making additional API calls in order to further improve a weighting/ > ranking algorithm I am using.
