Twitter API - Get a list of your friends in C#

I needed to call the Twitter API and get a list of friends.  I thought I could do something similar to getting a list of posts, but alas, I had some stupid error in my linq to xml code.  I futzed around with it for days to no avail.  Finally, I decided it was just easier to iterate through the XML using an XmlNode and fill my objects that way.  Hey, it just worked.  Like my previous example, this code uses C# and is in a WCF Service.  Note: As displayed, the code doesn't work, you will have to supply a password.

        [OperationContract]
        public Friends[] GetFriends(string username)
        {
            string url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/friends.xml";
            string user = Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(username + ":" + password));
            HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(url);
            Friends frd;
            List<Friends> lf = new List<Friends>();

            request.Method = "POST";
            request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password);
            WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
            StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
            string responseString = reader.ReadToEnd();
            reader.Close();
            XmlDocument xmld = new XmlDocument();
            xmld.LoadXml(responseString);
            XDocument document = XDocument.Parse(responseString);

            foreach(XmlNode xmln in xmld.SelectNodes("users/user"))
            {
                frd = new Friends();
                frd.id = Convert.ToInt32(xmln["id"].InnerText);
                frd.name = xmln["name"].InnerText;
                frd.screen_name = xmln["screen_name"].InnerText;
                lf.Add(frd);
            }
            return (lf.ToArray());
        }
 

My custom object which I am streaming back looks like this:

    [DataContract]
    public class Friends
    {
        [DataMember]
        public string name { get; set; }
        [DataMember]
        public string screen_name { get; set; }
        [DataMember]
        public int id { get; set; }
    }

 Original Url: http://morewally.com/cs/blogs/wallym/archive/2009/03/18/twitter-api-get-a-list-of-your-friends-in-c.aspx