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You can still access the list of a person's followers through Twitter's API, and Instagram has twitter-handle to instagram-handle mappings in their DB. Why are
by GuiA 14y ago
You can still access the list of a person's followers through Twitter's API, and Instagram has twitter-handle to instagram-handle mappings in their DB.
Why aren't they rolling out their own "Find my twitter friends"?
- abraham 14y agoThat is what Twitter shut off.
- GuiA 14y agoTwitter has shut off accessing the list of people a person follows?
- abraham 14y agoThat is how you would build the feature. Instagram gets a list of the Twitter accounts I follow, and looks to see if any of them already have an account.
- GuiA 14y agoOh ok, I thought there was a more complex feature of the Twitter API. Getting the list of people a given user follows is such a basic API feature that I was genuinely surprised Twitter would disable it for Instagram.
- abraham 14y agoMy guess is Twitter doesn't want Facebook to have access to their friend graph and Facebook did the same thing to them a while ago.