I can get follower_count, but what about FOLLOWING count for twitter users?

I can't find any explanation for this ANYWHERE. Part of the value of a twitter account is a low following:follower ratio (at least it's correlated wit开发者_StackOverflow中文版h high-profile twitter accounts). But I can't seem to obtain the following count through the API.

Does anyone know why? Or if I'm missing something, where can I find info about this?

Thanks.

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you can use friends_count, for list of friends you have which you are following.