HTTP requests use key=value pairs in the URL strings and post bodies yes. In this case the key is follow and the value is 777925. For multiple accounts the value would be 777925,123456.
Using curl this would be sent like this (I use -X POST here because I like being verbose with my calls): curl -u username http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json -d "follow=777925,123456" -X POST Hope that helps, Matt On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:04 PM, kme <[email protected]> wrote: > I see, so it's not really a key/value pair then, it's the uri-encoded > expression as a whole? > > On Aug 11, 9:47 pm, Matt Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey, > > > > To follow users you need to POST the user IDs you want to follow as a > comma > > separated list. For example to follow @themattharris you would POST > > "follow=777925" > > > > If you're still having problems let us see the API request you are making > > and we'll see what's up. > > > > Matt > > > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:26 PM, kme <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am trying to use the streaming API to return result sets of for > > > specific users. For some reason, no user is being located by the id > > > specified. Is there something not documented with these calls? > > > > >http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_methods#follow > > > > > any info someone has is greatly appreciated! > > > > -- > > > > Matt Harris > > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris > -- Matt Harris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris
