statuses/followers

Returns the authenticating user's followers, each with current status inline. They are ordered by the order in which they followed the user, 100 at a time. (Please note that the result set isn't guaranteed to be 100 every time as suspended users will be filtered out.) Use the cursor option to access earlier followers.

URL:

curl http://api.t.sina.com.cn/statuses/followers.format

Formats:

xml, json

HTTP Method(s):

GET

Requires Authentication (about authentication):

false unless requesting it from a protected user; if getting this data of a protected user, you must auth (and be allowed to see that user).

API rate limited (about rate limiting):

1 call per request

Parameters:

• id. Optional. The ID or screen name of the user for whom to request a list of followers.

o Example: http://api.t.sina.com.cn/statuses/followers/12345.json or http://api.t.sina.com.cn/statuses/followers/bob.xml

• user_id. Optional. Specfies the ID of the user for whom to return the list of followers. Helpful for disambiguating when a valid user ID is also a valid screen name.

o Example: http://api.t.sina.com.cn/statuses/followers.xml?user_id=1401881

• screen_name. Optional. Specfies the screen name of the user for whom to return the list of followers. Helpful for disambiguating when a valid screen name is also a user ID.

o Example: http://api.t.sina.com.cn/statuses/followers.xml?screen_name=101010

• cursor. Optional. Breaks the results into pages. A single page contains 100 users. This is recommended for users who are followed by many other users. Provide a value of -1 to begin paging. Provide values as returned to in the response body's next_cursor and previous_cursor attributes to page back and forth in the list.

o Example: http://api.t.sina.com.cn/statuses/followers/barackobama.xml?cursor=-1 o Example: http://api.t.sina.com.cn/statuses/followers/barackobama.xml?cursor=1300794057949944903

Usage Notes:

• Requests for protected users without credentials from 1) the user requested or 2) a user that is following the protected user will omit the nested status element. Only publicly available data will be returned in this case.
• [Deprecation] The notifications and following attributes will be removed in version 2 of the API. Use /friendships/show or /friendships/exists instead.

Unpaginated Response

(about return values): XML example (truncated):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<users>
 <user>
 <id>1401881</id>
 <name>Doug Williams</name>
 <screen_name>dougw</screen_name>
 <location>San Francisco, CA</location>
 <description>Twitter API Support. Internet, greed, users, dougw and opportunities are my passions.</description>
 <profile_image_url></profile_image_url>
 <url>http://www.igudo.com</url>
 <protected>false</protected>
 <followers_count>1031</followers_count>
 <profile_background_color>9ae4e8</profile_background_color>
 <profile_text_color>000000</profile_text_color>
 <profile_link_color>0000ff</profile_link_color>
 <profile_sidebar_fill_color>e0ff92</profile_sidebar_fill_color>
 <profile_sidebar_border_color>87bc44</profile_sidebar_border_color>
 <friends_count>293</friends_count>
 <created_at>Sun Mar 18 06:42:26 +0000 2007</created_at>
 <favourites_count>0</favourites_count>
 <utc_offset>-18000</utc_offset>
 <time_zone>Eastern Time (US & Canada)</time_zone>
 <profile_background_image_url></profile_background_image_url>
 <profile_background_tile>false</profile_background_tile>
 <statuses_count>3390</statuses_count>
 <notifications>false</notifications>
 <following>false</following>
 <verified>true</verified>
 <status>
  <created_at>Tue Apr 07 22:52:51 +0000 2009</created_at>
  <id>1472669360</id>
  <text>At least I can get your humor through tweets. RT @abdur: I don't mean this in a bad way, but genetically speaking your a cul-de-sac.</text>
  <source><a href="http://www.tweetdeck.com/">TweetDeck</a></source>
  <truncated>false</truncated>
  <in_reply_to_status_id></in_reply_to_status_id>
  <in_reply_to_user_id></in_reply_to_user_id>
  <favorited>false</favorited>
  <in_reply_to_screen_name></in_reply_to_screen_name>
 </status>
</user>
 ... truncated ...
</users> 

Paginated Response

(about return values): XML example (truncated):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<users_list>
<users type="array">
<user>
 <id>422</id>
 <name>Jason Shellen</name>
 <screen_name>shellen</screen_name>
 <location>iPhone: 37.889321,-122.173345</location>
 <description>CEO and founder of Thing Labs, makers of Brizzly! Former Blogger/Google dude, father of two little dudes.</description>
 <profile_image_url></profile_image_url>
 <url>http://www.shellen.com</url>
 <protected>false</protected>
 <followers_count>8526</followers_count>
 <profile_background_color>9ae4e8</profile_background_color>
 <profile_text_color>000000</profile_text_color>
 <profile_link_color>0000ff</profile_link_color>
 <profile_sidebar_fill_color>DCDCDC</profile_sidebar_fill_color>
 <profile_sidebar_border_color>D22900</profile_sidebar_border_color>
 <friends_count>375</friends_count>
 <created_at>Thu Jul 06 22:36:22 +0000 2006</created_at>
 <favourites_count>1179</favourites_count>
 <utc_offset>-28800</utc_offset>
 <time_zone>Pacific Time (US & Canada)</time_zone>
 <profile_background_image_url></profile_background_image_url>
 <profile_background_tile>true</profile_background_tile>
 <statuses_count>2710</statuses_count>
 <notifications></notifications>
 <verified>false</verified>
 <following></following>
 <status>
   <created_at>Thu Sep 24 19:31:58 +0000 2009</created_at>
   <id>4349531340</id>
   <text>I think @jasonfried just went from "prickly fellow" to "kind of a dick" in my book. Eyes on your own paper Fried.</text>
   <source><a href="http://www.brizzly.com" rel="nofollow">Brizzly</a></source>
   <truncated>false</truncated>
   <in_reply_to_status_id></in_reply_to_status_id>
   <in_reply_to_user_id></in_reply_to_user_id>
   <favorited>false</favorited>
   <in_reply_to_screen_name></in_reply_to_screen_name>
 </status>
</user>
... truncated ... 
</users>
<next_cursor>1299072354878293926</next_cursor>
<previous_cursor>0</previous_cursor>
    </users_list> 

Notes:

• If the cursor parameter is not provided, only the first 100 users in the set will be returned.
• The previously documented page-based pagination mechanism is still in production, but will be deprecated. Please migrate to cursor-based pagination for increased reliability and performance.

Usage examples:

cURL (about cURL):

curl -u user:password http://api.t.sina.com.cn/statuses/followers.xml