This can also be retrieved using any valid Twitter account. One thing to note, however, is that the relationship data in these queries is not always accurate (or existent). There's an open ticket for this: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=234
This is the main reason that I do friendship checks using the friendship/exists method and then cache the results of that on my side depending on my requirements. Annoying, but necessary to retrieve accurate data until Twitter takes care of those issues. dpc On Feb 2, 9:49 pm, dougw <igu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Peter, > If you are having the user log into your application then you can > retrieve their friend list using the users/friends method, then > iterate through this list and determine which of the 100 businesses > this user is following. That will also speed things up since you avoid > most of the 100 serial friendship/exists API queries used to generate > that page. > > @dougw > > On Feb 2, 9:55 pm, Peter Denton <petermden...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > Can anyone share the best way to go about checking if twitters users are > > following other users in a semi-large qunities (100 at a time). > > > My scenario is that I have a 3rd party app where people find businesses on > > twitter. I show businesses 100 at a time based on something like > > alphabetical listing or search result. Ideally, I would like to have it so > > that they can login, do a search like "twitter applications" and have the > > list show them if they are following each business or not. > > > I am already using the freindship/exists method in the API, but curious if > > there was a way to do something like "does user_a follow user_b where user_b > > in (id1,id2,id3,id4). Or do I just have to run the query against the api one > > instance at a time? > > > Thanks, > > Peter > >
