Does GET friends/ids paginate correctly?

[misc_CIA_victim]

Attempting to use this REST API according to the documentation: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/friends/ids however, it seems to always return a next_cursor value of “0” with count=5000 even if the designated twitter user is following more than 5000 other accounts. I am able to successfully run the curl generated queries, but when I use it with a user account following more than 5000 users, it always returns “0” rather than a usable next_cursor value. Is this a bug or is there some trick I am missing?

[abraham]

In my quick test bot Apigee and the curl example worked fine and returned next_cursor. Do you have an exact curl request that isn’t working as expected?

[misc_CIA_victim]

Start at this page: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/friends/ids

I select one of “my apps”

I change the “screen_name” parameter from “twitter_api” to “mikeallen”, a user with who is following 103K users. Leaving everything else the same. Generate the Oauth request. Copy the resulting curl command to a term window (I’m using Linux). Run the curl command. It runs successfully an returns some large number of ids, but the last part of the content is this:

2712899680,71275370],“next_cursor”:0,“next_cursor_str”:“0”,“previous_cursor”:0,“previous_cursor_str”:“0”}

next_cursor is 0, as if it had reached the last page and there were no more results to obtain.

By way of contrast, when I follow the parallel procedure with the parallel api for followers - https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/followers/ids - I do get a series of usable cursors, exactly as is documented and expected.

Hence my query whether there is something wrong with the implementation of the friends/id API function.