Twitter follow Url

Question

Hitting the url http://twitter.com/home?status=<status_msg> takes us to the twitter login page and once logged in, the status is already filled in the input box, ready to be tweeted.

Is there a similar url for following somebody on twitter ?

something of the form http://twitter.com/follow?user=<user_to be_followed> so that when this url is hit, the user is taken to login page(if not authenticated), and after a successfull login, the logged in user becomes a follower of the user in the url.

Answer 1

I got information from https://dev.twitter.com/docs/intents#follow-intent and now you can use https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=<twitter_screen_name>

Answer 2

https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=[USERNAME]

in fact, there's a few 'intent', this one is particularly useful

https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=[TITLE]&url=[URL]

it is much better to use simple links like these for all sharing buttons than the buttons provided by the social sites which will multiply HTTP requests alarmingly.