So i'm trying to access my own followers through the API. I set the scope to include followers_list. However when I call https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/self/follows?access_token=sometokenhere I receive code 200 and no data. My application is in sandbox mode. Any reason why I can't access my own followers/following? Thanks.
In Sandbox mode you will only get response for posts and users that are in your sandbox user list.
So add one of the users u follow to sandbox, then only that user will be in API response, once your app is reviewed, approved and live, all the users will show up in API response.