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 > > > > -- > > Twitter developer documentation and resources: > http://dev.twitter.com/doc > > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > > http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > > Change your membership to this group: > > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en > > > > > > -- > > > Matt Harris > Developer Advocate, Twitter > http://twitter.com/themattharris > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
