Twitter API Request to Get the List of Friends Who have not followed you back

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Durrab

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Mar 9, 2010, 5:51:02 AM3/9/10
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Hello,
My name is Durrab and I want Twitter to Provide one more
API Request as those Friends who have not followed your.

For Example:

http://api.twitter.com/1/friends/notfollowed/ids.format

Thanks & Regards:

Durrab

Scott Wilcox

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Mar 9, 2010, 9:57:31 AM3/9/10
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There is no API endpoint for this. You will need to build it clientside yourself. Get your list of followers and friends and then compare.

Scott.

Dean Collins

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Mar 9, 2010, 10:46:26 AM3/9/10
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www.mypostbutler.com does that, basically in the unfollow feature it
separates out who follows you back or not you can then see who has no
return love for you :(

Cheers,

Dean

Alam Sher

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Mar 10, 2010, 3:48:45 PM3/10/10
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I think its the simplest of features to implement using existing Twitter API as Scott suggest.

Just write a method in your service to fetch friends ids and followers ids and then compare these ids to separate the list of followers ids who are not friends. Then provide links to unfollow these ids on interface. Is that difficult? Not at all. Some client side programming is needed only.

Cheers,
Alam Sher
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Mr. Khan

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Mar 10, 2010, 11:43:47 PM3/10/10
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I did it, But here is a question about performance, if we have 100k followers and suppose 90 k following then we have to loop through them and then unfollow.

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Durrab Khan
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Andrew Badera

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Mar 11, 2010, 8:47:44 AM3/11/10
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Which is why you'll notice a lot of asynchronous account
parsing/polling behavior in many apps.

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