This information is returned in the users profile information and can be access from the API something like:
/1/users/show -- http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/show /1/users/lookup -- http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/lookup You could also request a users friends IDs using /1/friends/ids -- http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/friends/ids Best, @themattharris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:21 AM, HJ <hjenner...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to get the number of friends for a user, but there doesn't > seem to be a getFriendCount method in the API. Is something similar to > > http://weblogs.asp.net/wallym/archive/2009/03/20/twitter-api-get-a-list-of-your-friends-in-c.aspx > - looping through all and counting the only way of doing this? > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
