Please note
We recently released manage follows, a set of Twitter API v2 endpoints that have similar functionality to this one. The new version is currently in development and serves adequate access for the majority of developers on our platform. While elevated levels of access are coming soon, developers in need of higher levels of access should continue to use this endpoint along with the Twitter API v2 version.
POST friendships/destroy
Allows the authenticating user to unfollow the user specified in the ID parameter.
Returns the unfollowed user when successful. Returns a string describing the failure condition when unsuccessful.
Actions taken in this method are asynchronous. Changes will be eventually consistent.
Resource URL¶
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/friendships/destroy.json
Resource Information¶
| Response formats | JSON |
| Requires authentication? | Yes (user context only) |
| Rate limited? | Yes |
Parameters¶
| Name | Required | Description | Default Value | Example |
| screen_name | optional | The screen name of the user to unfollow. | twitterdev | |
| user_id | optional | The ID of the user to unfollow. | 2244994945 |
Example Request¶
POST https://api.twitter.com/1.1/friendships/destroy.json?user_id=2244994945
Example Response¶
{user-object,
"status": {tweet-object}
}
For more detail, see the user-object definition and the tweet-object definition.