It's probably a cache issue. However, I don't know how many seconds/minutes it takes to update the count.
You could run a test like so: store users/show/friends_count as x friendships/destroy to remove one y = x loop until y is < x get users/show/friends_count as y end I'd be curious to know how long it takes. Another option (but I assume these are cached too) is to call the social graph method for friends/ids/youruser.xml and check the # of ids returned. -damon On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 7:28 AM, topolino <lasse.kl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am using the twitter api (http://twitter.com/friendships/destroy/ > user.xml) to successfully unfollow a user for an account. > > The problem is that twitter does not decrease the friends_count when I > get the extended user information for the authenticating user. The > number is however decreased by one if I log in as the user and look at > the following count on twitter.com/home. > > Can anyone tell me what is causing this? And if it is a known but, is > there another way of finding the correct friends_count? > > -- http://twitter.com/damon
