Follow and Unfollow someone on twitter through API in PHP

Hello friends,

Today in Developer's Blog, I am going to tell you the way to follow and unfollow someone on twitter using API.

Below is the code to follow and unfollow someone on twitter :

<?php
require("twitteroauth/twitteroauth.php"); 

define('CONSUMER_KEY', 'Your Consumer Key Here');
define('CONSUMER_SECRET', 'Your Consumer Secret Here');
define('ACCESS_TOKEN', 'Your Access Token Here');
define('ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET', 'Your Access Token Secret Here');

function auto_follow()
{
    $ob = new TwitterOAuth(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET);

    $response=$ob->post('friendships/create',array('user_id'=>'783214'));
}


function auto_unfollow()
{
    $ob = new TwitterOAuth(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET);

    $response=$ob->post('friendships/destroy',array('user_id'=>'783214'));
}
?>

Now, you must be thinking about how to get user id of twitter account. I will tell you that also. Here's the link which will give you twitter user id by passing twitter username.

https://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.xml?screen_name=Ravinder22

You can create twitter app by going to this link :

https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new

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So by this way, you will successfully follow and unfollow users on twitter.

I hope this will help you and you will like it and you will follow me also on twitter.

Don't forget to leave your comments.

Thank you
Ravinder