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I am using the Basic Apis V2. I want to access the followers of authenticated user. But when I am trying to use /2/users/:id/followers, it says your project does not support it.

What shall I do and which plan to choose for? Since it is not supported in both basic and pro plans.

Also there is a similar api in Standard 1.1 API plans. I am not sure how do I enable that plan.

Please help.

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@karnpatel21

GET users/:id/followers

Unfortunately, this endpoint was removed from the Basic+ Subscription and moved to the Enterprise subscription, without any notification:

June 26, 2023

Twitter API v1.1

Today, we are removing the Follows and List Follows endpoints from the Basic and Pro tiers of the Twitter API v2.

There is currently no way to retrieve a list of Followers, unless you take out an Enterprise Subscription.

I did however find a way that one can receive a notification as to whether a single user is a follower or not, but it requires one to post a follow, like:

POST users/:id/followers

This endpoint is part of the Basic+ Subscription.

RESPONSE:

FOLLOWER = TRUE

{
	"data": {
		"following": true,
		"pending_follow": false
	}
}

FOLLOWER = FALSE

{
	"data": {
		"following": false,
		"pending_follow": true
	}
}

There are two problems with this approach:

  • You essentially end up, following people that you may not want to actually follow.
  • You can only retrieve one result at a time. This uses up a lot of API calls, if you have a massive list of users, you want to test?

If you receive the second notification, it probably means you have just followed someone, that you probably didn’t want to follow. You would then probably want to delete this Follow with:

DELETE /2/users/:source_user_id/following/:target_user_id

All of this, is a huge faff.
Twitter should just reinstate:

GET users/:id/followers

After all, this endpoint was part of the original Basic+ Subscription.
I would actually say that what Twitter has done here, is a breach of contract? :woman_shrugging:

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I agree 100%. There is nowhere in the Follows API documentation that this is only available for Enterprise users, and the top bullet on the X API product page is “Rate limited access to suite of v2 endpoints”. Suite of endpoints. Not “some of the suite of endpoints”. I would expect all of the endpoints at Twitter API Documentation | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform that are not under Enterprise to be available.

I paid the subscription solely to have this access, and I basically just flushed $100. How can you appeal to X?

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There doesn’t seem to be any way to appeal to Twitter. Most Devs are extremely lucky, if they ever hear from Twitter Support.
This is why I will no longer develop with the Twitter API.
The trust & the support no longer exists. :disappointed:

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@XDevelopers Could you clarify why the endpoints were removed? Is there any other possibility to check for account followers?

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