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tripRev
tripRev

Reputation: 902

See if a user is following me from tweet JSON?

I'm using the twitter streaming API to catch tweets that contain a certain phrase. In the tweet JSON, is there a way to see if a user is following me (ie if the tweet author is following the authenticated user which initiated the stream)?

I noticed that tweets have a tweetObject.user.following property, but when that's true, it seems to be because I am following the tweet's author, not the other way around.

Is there a way to accurately see if the tweet's author is following me, rather than do a request for my followers list and compare against that for every new tweet?

Thanks if anyone can give some info!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 266

Answers (1)

Imam Hidayat
Imam Hidayat

Reputation: 158

Twitter REST API has a method to show user relationship data. See the documentation on https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/friendships/show. It says:

Returns detailed information about the relationship between two arbitrary users.

The response contains following and followed_by fields in source and target user. This is the result sample:

{
"relationship": {
  "target": {
    "id_str": "12148",
    "id": 12148,
    "screen_name": "ernie",
    "following": false,
    "followed_by": false
  },
  "source": {
    "can_dm": false,
    "blocking": null,
    "muting": null,
    "id_str": "8649302",
    "all_replies": null,
    "want_retweets": null,
    "id": 8649302,
    "marked_spam": null,
    "screen_name": "bert",
    "following": false,
    "followed_by": false,
    "notifications_enabled": null
  }
}
}

I don't know if this can help you when using streaming API. But at least, you don't have to "do a request for my followers list and compare against that for every new tweet" like you've said above.

Upvotes: 1

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