I haven't heard that this is happening, and when I make a follow request multiple times I don't receive duplicate emails - even if I cancel and resend.
One thing that may help is that you can see the status of a friendship by calling /users/show on the user you want to check the follow request for. If the user you are authenticating using OAuth as has made a request the data key: follow_request_sent will be true. Hope that helps, Matt On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Jesse Stay <jesses...@gmail.com> wrote: > Right now when I initiate follows, the easiest way to determine if the user > is already following the individual I'm trying to follow is to just send a > follow request, and get an error back if the user is already following the > individual. However, I'm seeing an issue that might not make this the ideal > way of doing this - it seems for each follow request, even if they're > already following the individual they're still getting a follow e-mail from > Twitter. > Now, there could be a slight chance that the user has actually unfollowed > and the e-mail is legit, but I wanted to see if the Twitter API team was > absolutely sure those follow e-mails can't go out if the user is already > following the individual and a follow request is sent. Does that make > sense? > I'm banging my head against this one - for what I can tell my users aren't > unfollowing each other, so my next guess is that Twitter is just sending out > an e-mail each time we send that follow request. I'd rather not have to > make 2 API calls just to tell if the user is already following the > individual or not. Any thoughts? > Thanks, > Jesse > > -- > 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?hl=en > -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris -- 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?hl=en