User objects used to support <following> but it was known to be unreliable so it has been deprecated. See announcement: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/42ba883b9f8e3c6e?tvc=2
If you don't wan't to make 2 API calls just try sending the DM and if it fails then you know there is no friendship there. Abraham On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 19:07, mostafa farghaly <keepon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > hi guys > i think we need this tag to send direct messages easily, > as far as i know i can send direct messages to the buddies i follow > and they follow me in the same time , and there's now direct way to > know this info from the <user> info tag, i don't want to make two > request: one for making sure they follow each other and one to send > the direct message :( . > -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.