---
title: "Verify User Following Relationship"
method: GET
path: "/twitter/user/{source_user_id}/following/{target_user_id}"
tags: ["Social Actions API"]
---

# Verify User Following Relationship

`GET /twitter/user/{source_user_id}/following/{target_user_id}`

This endpoint provides a convenient way to check if a user (identified by source_user_id) is following another user (identified by target_user_id). The endpoint achieves this without scraping the entire followers list which allows us to deliver a fully accurate result with minimal latency.

## Path parameters

- `source_user_id` string, required
- `target_user_id` string, required

## Response `200`

Request succeeded

- UserFollowingResponse
  - `status` string, required
  - `source_user_id` string, required — The string representation of the unique identifier for follower User.
  - `target_user_id` string, required — The string representation of the unique identifier for the User being followed.
  - `is_following` boolean, required — Indicates whether user identified by source_user_id is following user identified by target_user_id.
  - `followers_checked_count` integer, required — Deprecated. Currently returns 'null'

## Other responses

- `402` — Payment required - not enough credits to perform this request
- `422` — Validation failed (e.g. user IDs are not provided or in invalid format)
- `500` — API internal error, typically means that SocialData API failed to obtain the requested information. Retry may succeed

## Changes

- **2025-03-12** `73745ce76c49` — 1 breaking, 6 info
  - the response's body type/format changed from ``/`` to `object`/`` for status `200`
  - removed `#/components/schemas/UserFollowingStatus, #/components/schemas/ErrorResponse` from the response body `oneOf` list for the response status `200`
  - added the required property `followers_checked_count` to the response with the `200` status
  - added the required property `is_following` to the response with the `200` status
  - …3 more

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/socialdata-api/apis/socialdata-api-reference/changes/twitter/user/:source_user_id/following/:target_user_id/get.md)

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