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Let's say user A follows user B, and B follows A. I want to know the exact date A started following B and viceversa. Is this information stored on twitter? Can I retrieve it using the API?
To clear out: The point of this question is finding a way to know who followed who first. (I'm assuming both A and B deleted the notification e-mails)
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Check your direct messages to determine when you followed someone, if you followed them recently. Click "Messages." Scroll down the messages for any automated "thanks for following" messages. The date on the message will be the date you started following them.
Unfortunately, there's no way to find out when you first started following someone on Instagram. Instagram does not disclose this information anywhere, and they see no reason why it would be beneficial, which is why it isn't available.
Step 1: On your Instagram profile page, tap “Following.” Step 2: Tap the icon with the up and down arrows. Step 3: Tap either “Date Followed: Latest” or “Date Followed: Earliest” to sort the list of accounts you follow based on when you started following them.
No Ignacio, you can't. You just can know who follows who but not the date the follow started.
Looking at the API, there's is no way, there are two calls to get the followers:
User Methods/statuses/followers
and
Social Graph Methods/followers/ids
Neither of them returns dates or even a serial that would let you see who started following first. Really, there's no indication that twitter is internally storing this information, neither in the API nor Twitter's web interface.
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