Until the "follow request" is approved by user A, B is not really following A. Therefore A can't send a DM to B.
AFAIK, there's not a way to do the follow approval process step via the API. That step is done in the Twitter UI. -damon On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Daniel Kwiecinski <daniel.kwiecin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Following your advice I executed: > > 3.) > > curl -u user_a:pass_a -d "" > http://twitter.com/friendships/create/user_b.json > > {"description":"","screen_name":"user_b","url":null,"name":"user_b","protected":false,"profile_image_url":"http:\/\/static.twitter.com\/images\/default_profile_normal.png","location":"","id":xxx,"followers_count":1} > > but I can not send direct messages from user_a to user_b ;( > > 4.) > > curl -u user_a:pass_a -d "user=user_b&text=bla" > http://twitter.com/direct_messages/new.json > {"request":"\/direct_messages\/new.json","error":"You cannot send messages > to users who are not following you."}
