Updated on Thu, 2014-05-01 06:45
Mutes the user specified in the ID parameter for the authenticating user.
Returns the muted user in the requested format when successful. Returns a string describing the failure condition when unsuccessful.
Actions taken in this method are asynchronous and changes will be eventually consistent.
Resource URL
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/mutes/users/create.json
Parameters
Either screen_name or user_id must be provided.
screen_name optional
The screen name of the potentially muted user. Helpful for disambiguating when a valid screen name is also a user ID.
Example Values: whiteleaf
user_id optional
The ID of the potentially muted user. Helpful for disambiguating when a valid user ID is also a valid screen name.
Example Values: 12345
Example Request
POST | |
POST Data | |
{
"id": 54931584,
"id_str": "54931584",
"name": "Evil Piper",
"screen_name": "evilpiper",
"location": "",
"description": "mwah-ha-haaaaa",
"url": null,
"entities": {
"description": {
"urls": [
]
}
},
"protected": false,
"followers_count": 16,
"friends_count": 10,
"listed_count": 0,
"created_at": "Wed Jul 08 15:40:42 +0000 2009",
"favourites_count": 1,
"utc_offset": 3600,
"time_zone": "London",
"geo_enabled": false,
"verified": false,
"statuses_count": 71,
"lang": "en",
"status": {
"created_at": "Tue Apr 15 00:10:23 +0000 2014",
"id": 455860653731753984,
"id_str": "455860653731753984",
"text": "Super cool app to install http://t.co/ZiH6VOqLB3",
"source": "<a href=\"http://twitter.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter for iPhone</a>",
"truncated": false,
"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,
"geo": null,
"coordinates": null,
"place": null,
"contributors": null,
"retweet_count": 0,
"favorite_count": 0,
"entities": {
"hashtags": [
],
"symbols": [
],
"urls": [
{
"url": "http://t.co/ZiH6VOqLB3",
"expanded_url": "http://cards-demo.cfapps.io/owntracks.html",
"display_url": "cards-demo.cfapps.io/owntracks.html",
"indices": [
26,
48
]
}
],
"user_mentions": [
]
},
"favorited": false,
"retweeted": false,
"possibly_sensitive": false,
"lang": "en"
},
"contributors_enabled": false,
"is_translator": false,
"is_translation_enabled": false,
"profile_background_color": "1A1B1F",
"profile_background_image_url": "http://abs.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png",
"profile_background_image_url_https": "https://abs.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png",
"profile_background_tile": false,
"profile_image_url": "http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/307611594/evil_normal.png",
"profile_image_url_https": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/307611594/evil_normal.png",
"profile_link_color": "A6001E",
"profile_sidebar_border_color": "181A1E",
"profile_sidebar_fill_color": "949399",
"profile_text_color": "120312",
"profile_use_background_image": false,
"default_profile": false,
"default_profile_image": false,
"following": true,
"follow_request_sent": false,
"notifications": false,
"muting": true
}