Streaming Unfollow events through Site Streams

[Matt Harris]

Hey everyone,

Starting today we will be streaming unfollow events through Site Streams. These events are being streamed to allow you to keep the social graph of your users current without the need to query the REST API.  

We require that you only surface actions that are organically displayed on Twitter. This means, for example, executing the unfollow and delete actions but not publicly displaying them to end users. (Section II.4.B of the API Terms of Service - http://dev.twitter.com/pages/api_terms ).

The event will be the same format as "follow" except the event type will be "unfollow". For example:

{

    "for_user": 123456,

    "message": {

        "created_at": "Thu Jan 12 21:55:04 +0000 2011",

        "target": {

            <user object for user 123456 - the person being unfollowed>

        },

        "event": "unfollow",

        "source": {

            <user object for user 987654 - the user unfollowing the target>

        },

    }

}

Best,

@themattharris

Developer Advocate, Twitter
http://twitter.com/themattharris

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:14:41 -0800, Matt Harris
<themat...@twitter.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> Starting today we will be streaming unfollow events through Site
> Streams. These events are being streamed to allow you to keep the
> social graph of your users current without the need to query the REST
> API.  
>
> We require that you only surface actions that are organically
> displayed on Twitter. This means, for example, executing the unfollow
> and delete actions but not publicly displaying them to end users.
> (Section II.4.B of the API Terms of Service -

> http://dev.twitter.com/pages/api_terms [1] ).

> The event will be the same format as "follow" except the event type
> will be "unfollow". For example:
>
> {
>     "for_user": 123456,
>     "message": {
>         "created_at": "Thu Jan 12 21:55:04 +0000 2011",
>         "target": {
>             

>         },
>         "event": "unfollow",
>         "source": {
>             

>         },
>     }
> }
>
> Best,
> @themattharrisDeveloper Advocate, Twitter
> http://twitter.com/themattharris [2]
>
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Can this also be added to User Streams?
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[Tim Haines]

Just incase anyone else is playing with these, the unfollow events were just removed (deploy was rolled back).

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[Yusuke Yamamoto]

Twitter4J already supports the feature.

http://twitter4j.org/jira/browse/TFJ-529

Will the it come back later?

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[Tim Haines]

Yes, I expect so.

[Yusuke Yamamoto]

Thanks for your prompt response!

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[Tim Haines]

Unfollow events have been turned back on.

[David]

Should we be seeing unfollow events for both when our tracked user is the source and the target? I'm only seeing unfollow events where the tracked user is doing the unfollowing.

Best,

David

[Tim Haines]

David, what you're seeing is what I'm seeing too - and it's what I'd expect to see.

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