Thanks Matt.  I'll keep checking.

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Matt Harris <[email protected]>wrote:

> I haven't heard that this is happening, and when I make a follow
> request multiple times I don't receive duplicate emails - even if I
> cancel and resend.
>
> One thing that may help is that you can see the status of a friendship
> by calling /users/show on the user you want to check the follow
> request for. If the user you are authenticating using OAuth as has
> made a request the data key: follow_request_sent will be true.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Matt
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Jesse Stay <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Right now when I initiate follows, the easiest way to determine if the
> user
> > is already following the individual I'm trying to follow is to just send
> a
> > follow request, and get an error back if the user is already following
> the
> > individual.  However, I'm seeing an issue that might not make this the
> ideal
> > way of doing this - it seems for each follow request, even if they're
> > already following the individual they're still getting a follow e-mail
> from
> > Twitter.
> > Now, there could be a slight chance that the user has actually unfollowed
> > and the e-mail is legit, but I wanted to see if the Twitter API team was
> > absolutely sure those follow e-mails can't go out if the user is already
> > following the individual and a follow request is sent.  Does that make
> > sense?
> > I'm banging my head against this one - for what I can tell my users
> aren't
> > unfollowing each other, so my next guess is that Twitter is just sending
> out
> > an e-mail each time we send that follow request.  I'd rather not have to
> > make 2 API calls just to tell if the user is already following the
> > individual or not.  Any thoughts?
> > Thanks,
> > Jesse
> >
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