Twitter style following-follower table in SQL

Question

I have a basic follower/following table in mySQL which looks like this.

id      user_id     follower_id
1           userA       userB
2           userC       userA
3           userA       userC
4           userB       userC
5           userB       userA

I checked these topics but couldnt find what I need

database design for 'followers' and 'followings'?

SQL Following and Followers

What I need is to have a system like this:

Assume we are userB ( we follow userA, we are followed by userC and userA)

I like to return a result that includes this follower/following state. For example for userB:

id      followedBy     areWeFollowing
1           userA       1
2           userC       0

Thanks for your help!

arda

Answer 1

With this query to find if who you follow, follow you too.

SELECT ff1.follower_id as followedBy,
(
   select count(follower_id) 
   from follower_following as ff2 
   where ff2.user_id = ff1.follower_id 
   and ff2.follower_id = ff1.user_id 
) as areWeFollowing 
FROM follower_following as ff1  
where user_id = 'userB';