I don't think this is supported b/c friendship creation must be initiated by a POST request, meaning that some deliberate action must be taken on the part of the user (e.g. clicking a "Follow" button on twitter's site). I'm pretty sure this is intentional as it was changed to act this way to prevent automatic follow spamming that was occurring some time ago.
I think the best you can do is just point them to the user's profile on twitter and hope that they login and click "follow". -Chad On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Peter Denton <petermden...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I have a third party site and want to connect twitter users. I am not having > them authenticate, its more of a listing service. > > Say I have a button that says "follow" by a profile on my site, and I want > to just point at a URL on twitter that would create a friendship after they > log in on twitter. > > So again, 1. I am on the third party site, 2. I click a link pointing at > some URL like http://twitter.com/friendships/create/al3x, 3. I login to > twitter on twitter.com and 4. I am now on twitter and a friendship has > occured > > Thanks! >
