post_follow: Follows target Twitter user.

In rtweet: Collecting Twitter Data

Follows target Twitter user.

Description

Follows target Twitter user.

Usage

post_follow(
  user,
  destroy = FALSE,
  mute = FALSE,
  notify = FALSE,
  retweets = TRUE,
  token = NULL
)

post_unfollow_user(user, token = NULL)

post_mute(user, token = NULL)

Arguments

user	Character vector of screen names or user ids. See as_screenname() for more details.
destroy	Logical indicating whether to post (add) or remove (delete) target tweet as favorite.
mute	Logical indicating whether to mute the intended friend (you must already be following this account prior to muting them)
notify	Logical indicating whether to enable notifications for target user. Defaults to false.
retweets	Logical indicating whether to enable retweets for target user. Defaults to true.
token	Expert use only. Use this to override authentication for a single API call. In most cases you are better off changing the default for all calls. See auth_as() for details.

References

Update: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/v1/accounts-and-users/follow-search-get-users/api-reference/post-friendships-update Create: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/v1/accounts-and-users/follow-search-get-users/api-reference/post-friendships-create Destroy: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/v1/accounts-and-users/follow-search-get-users/api-reference/post-friendships-destroy Mute: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/v1/accounts-and-users/mute-block-report-users/api-reference/post-mutes-users-create

See Also

Other post: post_favorite(), post_friendship(), post_tweet()

Examples

if (auth_has_default()) {
    post_follow("_R_Foundation")
    post_follow("rtweet", mute = TRUE) # Mute
}

rtweet documentation built on Jan. 9, 2023, 9:06 a.m.