[twitter-dev] Re: Hot to identify mutual friends

2009-03-01 Thread domfosnz
I just tested it and that works. Thankyou very much. On Mar 1, 5:19 pm, TjL wrote: > You need two API calls, I believe: > > http://twitter.com/friendships/exists.xml?user_a=SALLY&user_b=JOE > > http://twitter.com/friendships/exists.xml?user_a=JOE&user_b=SALLY > > To see if Sally follows Joe and

[twitter-dev] Re: Hot to identify mutual friends

2009-03-01 Thread TjL
I confused the question: Are you looking for the overlap in friends or a mutual friendship between two people? Dumping friend IDs and looking for duplicates is the right way to do the former. TjL

[twitter-dev] Re: Hot to identify mutual friends

2009-03-01 Thread rhysmeister
Depending on your needs it might be more efficient to use the social graphs methods http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Documentation#SocialGraphMethods i.e. get all of user_a's friends and all of user_b's friends and the do a comparison to identify mutual friends. On Mar 1, 3:17 am, domfosnz

[twitter-dev] Re: Hot to identify mutual friends

2009-02-28 Thread TjL
You need two API calls, I believe: http://twitter.com/friendships/exists.xml?user_a=SALLY&user_b=JOE http://twitter.com/friendships/exists.xml?user_a=JOE&user_b=SALLY To see if Sally follows Joe and Joe follows Sally. My example of how to do this with curl and XML is here (commandline Unix sc