We are experiencing similar problems. Friendship create is returning success, yet checking Twitter.com directly, or friends/ids.xml does NOT show the id of the friended user. At least not immediately. It appears as though there is a several hour delay before updating.
On Aug 30, 11:28 pm, Ben Eliott <ben.apperr...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Ok, further to emails below, i had a bit of self doubt because i seem > to alone on this, but now i'm back to being pretty sure something is > up with some twitter servers. As below, twitter is returning success > codes to POST/auth actions but it looks like nothing is happening on > twitter database (also blocking ids seems to be returning a different > number of people from the blocks/blocking.json (see email below)). I > mentioned all this already. But here's an interesting part... i just > noticed if i follow someone via an api call, while neither the api / > friendships/show/ nor the twitter.com/following/ listing shows that > person to be a friend, that persons tweets ARE now appearing on the > profile page as if they were a friend. Phew, now i know something's up > at twitter, madness averted. This occured 0602 UTC from 67.23.28.168 > but it's an ongoing issue for last three days i'm sure i can replicate/ > or go back to logs for more info/more exact time if necessary. > > On 29 Aug 2009, at 17:35, ben wrote: > > > > > Couple of issues sprouting, i have been editing the code so i'm going > > back and back over for some error at my end, but it's looking mighty > > odd. > > > It looks like: > > /friendships/destroy.json is not being updated > > blocks/blocking.json is not returning the same users as /blocks/ > > blocking/ids.json > > > Logging below. My ip for is 67.23.28.168 and times Europe/London. > > > logging for friendships/destory: > > 2009-08-29 17:10:56,702 - twitterauth.utils - INFO - twitter api exe. > > -https://twitter.com/friendships/destroy.json. kwargs={'screen_name': > > u'arthurcooke'} method=POST is_auth=True > > 2009-08-29 17:10:57,166 - twitterauth.utils - DEBUG - api auth > > response, {u'id': 16612822, u'verified': False, > > u'profile_sidebar_fill_color': u'252429', u'profile_text_color': > > u'666666', u'followers_count': 14, u'protected': True, u'location': > > u'Leeds, UK', u'profile_background_color': u'1A1B1F', u'status': > > {u'favorited': False, u'truncated': False, u'text': u'Relaxing in > > Aspen.', u'created_at': u'Mon Aug 10 22:45:51 +0000 2009', u'source': > > u'web', u'in_reply_to_status_id': None, u'in_reply_to_screen_name': > > None, u'in_reply_to_user_id': None, u'id': 3233921143}, u'utc_offset': > > 0, u'statuses_count': 46, u'description': u'Runner, Mountain Biker, > > Science Teacher, Film Fan', u'friends_count': 18, > > u'profile_link_color': u'2FC2EF', u'profile_image_url': u'http:// > > a3.twimg.com/profile_images/81150781/IMG_0320_normal.JPG', > > u'notifications': False, u'profile_background_image_url': u'http:// > > s.twimg.com/a/1251493570/images/themes/theme9/bg.gif', u'screen_name': > > u'arthurcooke', u'profile_background_tile': False, > > u'favourites_count': 0, u'name': u'arthur cooke', u'url': None, > > u'created_at': u'Mon Oct 06 12:07:50 +0000 2008', u'time_zone': > > u'London', u'profile_sidebar_border_color': u'181A1E', u'following': > > True} > > > then..not long later > > > 2009-08-29 17:10:59,746 - twitterauth.utils - INFO - twitter api exe. > > -https://twitter.com/statuses/friends.json. kwargs={'screen_name': > > u'b_e_n_', 'page': 1} method=GET is_auth=False > > > the response is parsed and friends username listed in log..note > > including the one who was just destroyed. > > > 2009-08-29 17:11:00,206 - twittersearch.models - DEBUG - get current > > friends for b_e_n_ - [u'TomChivers', u'Love_London', u'Fast140', > > u'performativeweb', u'bbcbreaking', u'rhonafwelsh', u'danifromCO', > > u'elliottzone', u'maustyn', u'unstuckdesign', u'arthurcooke', > > u'jools2'] > > > logging for blocks/blocking, last few logs show 3 blocked users from > > blocking.json and 2 from ids.json: > > > 009-08-29 17:11:39,268 - twitterauth.utils - INFO - twitter api exe. - > >https://twitter.com/blocks/blocking.json. kwargs={'page': 1} > > method=GET is_auth=True > > > 2009-08-29 17:11:39,608 - twitterauth.utils - DEBUG - api auth > > response, [{u'id': 16803782, u'verified': False, > > u'profile_sidebar_fill_color': u'e0ff92', u'profile_text_color': > > u'000000', u'followers_count': 8, u'protected': False, u'location': > > u'United States', u'profile_background_color': u'9ae4e8', > > u'utc_offset': -32400, u'statuses_count': 0, u'description': u':spends > > a lot of hours surfing the net', u'friends_count': 111, > > u'profile_link_color': u'0000ff', u'profile_image_url': u'http:// > > a3.twimg.com/profile_images/ > > 62184497/212297864a2022621782b584997122l_normal.jpg', > > u'notifications': False, u'profile_background_image_url': u'http:// > > s.twimg.com/a/1251493570/images/themes/theme1/bg.gif', u'screen_name': > > u'SARAH161008', u'profile_background_tile': False, > > u'favourites_count': 0, u'name': u'SARAH161008', u'url': u'http://MY- > > OWN-PAGE.TK', u'created_at': u'Thu Oct 16 07:03:12 +0000 2008', > > u'time_zone': u'Alaska', u'profile_sidebar_border_color': u'87bc44', > > u'following': False}, {u'id': 16804065, u'verified': False, > > u'profile_sidebar_fill_color': u'e0ff92', u'profile_text_color': > > u'000000', u'followers_count': 7, u'protected': False, u'location': > > u'', u'profile_background_color': u'9ae4e8', u'utc_offset': -32400, > > u'statuses_count': 0, u'description': u':wants to GAIN weight!wants to > > try bungee jumping & sky diving (but im acrophobic)', > > u'friends_count': 84, u'profile_link_color': u'0000ff', > > u'profile_image_url': u'http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/ > > 62185674/212297864a2698743034b849032084l_normal.jpg', > > u'notifications': False, u'profile_background_image_url': u'http:// > > s.twimg.com/a/1251493570/images/themes/theme1/bg.gif', u'screen_name': > > u'JOYCE161008', u'profile_background_tile': False, > > u'favourites_count': 0, u'name': u'JOYCE161008', u'url': u'http://MY- > > OWN-PAGE.TK', u'created_at': u'Thu Oct 16 07:40:38 +0000 2008', > > u'time_zone': u'Alaska', u'profile_sidebar_border_color': u'87bc44', > > u'following': False}, {u'id': 69771552, u'verified': False, > > u'profile_sidebar_fill_color': u'e0ff92', u'profile_text_color': > > u'000000', u'followers_count': 3, u'protected': False, u'location': > > None, u'profile_background_color': u'9ae4e8', u'status': > > {u'favorited': False, u'truncated': False, u'text': u'except whole > > foods mac n cheese is just not as good as kraft.http://a4a2b.easyurl.net > > ', > > u'created_at': u'Sat Aug 29 10:49:19 +0000 2009', u'source': u'web', > > u'in_reply_to_status_id': None, u'in_reply_to_screen_name': None, > > u'in_reply_to_user_id': None, u'id': 3623286748}, u'utc_offset': None, > > u'statuses_count': 1, u'description': None, u'friends_count': 690, > > u'profile_link_color': u'0000ff', u'profile_image_url': u'http:// > > a1.twimg.com/profile_images/387598494/12215739_lynde_20_normal.gif', > > u'notifications': False, u'profile_background_image_url': u'http:// > > s.twimg.com/a/1251493570/images/themes/theme1/bg.gif', u'screen_name': > > u'Blackburn432', u'profile_background_tile': False, > > u'favourites_count': 0, u'name': u'TrinidadBlackburn', u'url': None, > > u'created_at': u'Sat Aug 29 03:05:08 +0000 2009', u'time_zone': None, > > u'profile_sidebar_border_color': u'87bc44', u'following': False}] > > 2009-08-29 17:11:39,608 - twitterauth.models - DEBUG - user b_e_n_ > > returning blocked users > > 2009-08-29 17:11:39,608 - twittersearch.models - DEBUG - get current > > blocked for b_e_n_ - [u'SARAH161008', u'JOYCE161008', u'Blackburn432'] > > 2009-08-29 17:11:39,616 - twittersearch.models - DEBUG - get existing > > user with those usernames [<TwitterUser: Blackburn432>, <TwitterUser: > > JOYCE161008>, <TwitterUser: SARAH161008>] > > 2009-08-29 17:11:39,640 - twittersearch.models - INFO - resave > > SARAH161008 > > 2009-08-29 17:11:39,664 - twittersearch.models - INFO - resave > > JOYCE161008 > > 2009-08-29 17:11:39,688 - twittersearch.models - INFO - resave > > Blackburn432 > > 2009-08-29 17:11:39,688 - twitterauth.utils - INFO - twitter api exe. > > -https://twitter.com/blocks/blocking/ids.json. kwargs={} method=GET > > is_auth=True > > 2009-08-29 17:11:39,988 - twitterauth.utils - DEBUG - api auth > > response, [16804065, 16803782] > > > - last log shows only two ids from the blocks/blocking, but previous > > call shows 3. > >
