Please note

We recently released manage Likes, which includes a Twitter API v2 endpoint that has the same functionality as 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 to v2 soon, developers in need of higher levels of access should continue to use this endpoint along with the Twitter API v2 version.

POST favorites/destroy

Note: favorites are now known as likes.

Unfavorites (un-likes) the Tweet specified in the ID parameter as the authenticating user. Returns the un-liked Tweet when successful.

The process invoked by this method is asynchronous. The immediately returned Tweet object may not indicate the resultant favorited status of the Tweet. A 200 OK response from this method will indicate whether the intended action was successful or not.

Resource URL¶

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/favorites/destroy.json

Resource Information¶

Response formats	JSON
Requires authentication?	Yes (user context only)
Rate limited?	Yes

Parameters¶

Name	Required	Description	Default Value	Example
id	required	The numerical ID of the Tweet to un-like		123
include_entities	optional	The entities node will be omitted when set to false .		false

Example Request¶

POST https://api.twitter.com/1.1/favorites/destroy.json?id=1050118621198921728

Example Response¶

{
  "created_at": "Wed Oct 10 20:19:24 +0000 2018",
  "id": 1050118621198921728,
  "id_str": "1050118621198921728",
  "text": "To make room for more expression, we will now count all emojis as equal—including those with gender‍‍‍ and skin t… https://t.co/MkGjXf9aXm",
  "truncated": true,
  "entities": {
    "hashtags": [],
    "symbols": [],
    "user_mentions": [],
    "urls": [
      {
        "url": "https://t.co/MkGjXf9aXm",
        "expanded_url": "https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1050118621198921728",
        "display_url": "twitter.com/i/web/status/1…",
        "indices": [
          117,
          140
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "source": "<a href="http://twitter.com" rel="nofollow">Twitter Web Client</a>",
  "in_reply_to_status_id": null,
  "in_reply_to_status_id_str": null,
  "in_reply_to_user_id": null,
  "in_reply_to_user_id_str": null,
  "in_reply_to_screen_name": null,
  "user": {
    "id": 6253282,
    "id_str": "6253282",
    "name": "Twitter API",
    "screen_name": "TwitterAPI",
    "location": "San Francisco, CA",
    "description": "The Real Twitter API. Tweets about API changes, service issues and our Developer Platform. Don't get an answer? It's on my website.",
    "url": "https://t.co/8IkCzCDr19",
    "entities": {
      "url": {
        "urls": [
          {
            "url": "https://t.co/8IkCzCDr19",
            "expanded_url": "https://developer.twitter.com",
            "display_url": "developer.twitter.com",
            "indices": [
              0,
              23
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      "description": {
        "urls": []
      }
    },
    "protected": false,
    "followers_count": 6128663,
    "friends_count": 12,
    "listed_count": 12900,
    "created_at": "Wed May 23 06:01:13 +0000 2007",
    "favourites_count": 32,
    "utc_offset": null,
    "time_zone": null,
    "geo_enabled": null,
    "verified": true,
    "statuses_count": 3659,
    "lang": "null",
    "contributors_enabled": null,
    "is_translator": null,
    "is_translation_enabled": null,
    "profile_background_color": "null",
    "profile_background_image_url": "null",
    "profile_background_image_url_https": "null",
    "profile_background_tile": nulll,
    "profile_image_url": "null",
    "profile_image_url_https": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/942858479592554497/BbazLO9L_normal.jpg",
    "profile_banner_url": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/6253282/1497491515",
    "profile_link_color": "null",
    "profile_sidebar_border_color": "null",
    "profile_sidebar_fill_color": "null",
    "profile_text_color": "null",
    "profile_use_background_image": null,
    "has_extended_profile": null,
    "default_profile": false,
    "default_profile_image": false,
    "following": nul,
    "follow_request_sent": null,
    "notifications": null,
    "translator_type": "null"
  },
  "geo": null,
  "coordinates": null,
  "place": null,
  "contributors": null,
  "is_quote_status": false,
  "retweet_count": 161,
  "favorite_count": 296,
  "favorited": false,
  "retweeted": false,
  "possibly_sensitive": false,
  "possibly_sensitive_appealable": false,
  "lang": "en"
}