Gary,
Alex wrote this a while back and it suddenly seems relevant [1].
[1] - http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Migrating-to-followers-terminology
Doug Williams
Twitter API Support
http://twitter.com/dougw
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Gary Zhao garyz...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all
I'm sort of
Follower is clear (someone you follow)
Friend is (kinda) clear if you know what Follower means
(If a Follower is someone who follows you, then a Friend must be
someone you follow.)
I understand the desire to move away from the term Friend as
Someone You Follow (as it can be confusing) but
Things still confusing. As per the article,
The New Terminology
Things are now decidedly simpler: you follow other users, and other users
follow you. You can turn notifications on and off on a per-user basis.
So looks like Friendship.create is to follow someone and Notification.follow
is to turn
To simply follow a person, use friendships create. Notifications are for
toggling notifications (updates from a particular user) on/off to the
authenticated user's SMS device.
Chris Thomson
http://twitter.com/chris24
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Gary Zhao garyz...@gmail.com wrote:
Things
Why not categorize them in three roles?I would rather consider a friend is
whom you are following and he/she follows you as well. For example, if
someone I follow but he doesn't follow me, I can't send direct messages to
him. How can I consider him as a friend? A friend should be someone you can
