Going through the website. I was able to jump from a list to a users
page. Even though the user is protected I can see their followers and
who they are following. If I use the api against that user to get the
users follower ids I get:
The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized. Here
Probably a naming mistake made early on that would have been too much
effort to change later on. Clearly though, mutual following indicates
Friends more that the unidirectional follow does.
In my system, we say following and friends like you suggest. A
bit confusing, but I think easier than
This question is sort of pedantic, but I'm wondering why the API
refers to friends instead of followers. The API say's that
friends == following, but I understand (e.g. see this nice little
article
Twitter has evolved quite a bit over the last 4 years. It's not always
possible to evolve the API at the same pace.
I wouldn't say that mutual followers are friends. They're just mutual
followers.
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Miles Parker milespar...@gmail.com wrote:
This question is
I noticed that the friends and followers methods aren't on the docs any
more here:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-API-Documentation
Did I miss the memo that these were being deprecated? Why aren't they in the
docs?
Thanks,
Jesse
I'm using the api to retrieve friends and followers for a popular user
but it seems the api and the twitter friends and followers webpage end
the listing quite early in the listing. (I'm assuming the webpages
just use the api behind the scenes)
For example check out stephenfry's profile...
He's
