Follow an user in twitter via Rest API

Question

Hello. How using the twitter rest api can i follow a user in something like this format:

http://myuser:mypassword@urloftwitterapi/follow?user=useriwannafollow

There is a very simple method like this? Thanks

Answer 1

Use friendships/create:

http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-friendships%C2%A0create

Answer 2

As Joost already posted take a look at:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-friendships%C2%A0create

If you want to use this longer than till the end of June you'll need to check out OAuth Authentication:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Authentication
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/OAuth-Examples

Because Twitter will drop basic HTTP Auth by June 30th:
http://www.countdowntooauth.com/

That means you'll need some library by then, if you don't want to go with with something like Python or Ruby, you could check out Twurl: http://github.com/marcel/twurl/