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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 on notifications. > My question is what "turn on/off" means. I found the only option on > twitter.com is to follow/unfollow a user. Can I follow a user but turn off > notifications? or it can only be done in program? > > What's your suggestion if I want to simply follow a > person. Friendship.create and Notification.follow, which one should I use? > > Thanks > Gary > > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Doug Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi all >> > I'm sort of confused with this API. On twitter.com, my understanding is >> a >> > friend is someone you follow. However, there is a parameter "follow" for >> > this API. That means he/she can be your friend, but you don't follow. >> What >> > does this mean? A friend you don't follow is what? >> > Another question is when you use Notification.follow API, will the >> > user specified becomes your friend automatically? Or is it possible that >> you >> > follow someone who's not your friend? >> > Thanks >> > -- >> > Gary >> > >> > >> > > > > -- > Gary > >
