“跟随”键在获取好友/列表API Twitter中始终返回false

Question

when I am testing my app with GET friends/list API of twitter the "following" key of the JSON always turn up to be false/null even if the user following me . Why does this scenario keep occuring?

Sample JSON

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Available on mobile and web. 13 million users.", "url": "https:\\/\\/t.co\\/MEjmtjz2An", "entities": { "url": { "urls": [{ "url": "https:\\/\\/t.co\\/MEjmtjz2An", "expanded_url": "http:\\/\\/www.crowdfireapp.com", "display_url": "crowdfireapp.com", "indices": [0, 23] }] }, "description": { "urls": [] } }, "protected": false, "followers_count": 4270829, "friends_count": 202935, "listed_count": 6121, "created_at": "Sun Jan 10 11:47:21 +0000 2010", "favourites_count": 6434, "utc_offset": 19800, "time_zone": "Mumbai", "geo_enabled": true, "verified": false, "statuses_count": 33003, "lang": "en", "status": { "created_at": "Thu Jan 14 17:20:38 +0000 2016", "id": 687685769708711936, "id_str": "687685769708711936", "text": "@NaveenS16 would you like to name some of them? #cfchat", "source": "\Twitter Web Client\<\\/a\>", "truncated": false, "in_reply_to_status_id": 687685529454809088, "in_reply_to_status_id_str": "687685529454809088", "in_reply_to_user_id": 749455278, 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Answer 1

If you request it for a different user than the user making the authenticated request, then it may have a lot of false values as its follow status is based on the authenticated user.

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/friends/list.json?cursor=-1&screen_name=twitterapi&skip_status=true&include_user_entities=false

So for a generic account like twitterapi, most likely you will have a lot of false values, while for a screen_name that follows similar accounts you will have true values.

Try without specifying screen_name and you should always have true values.