I remember this topic coming up before and it seems like someone built an
application that handled this but I can't find any references to it. Maybe
somebody else can?
Abraham
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:29, Ivan gli.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi.
I tried to find the similar question here (in google groups), in the
FAQ and in the API, but couldn't find anything.
The problem:
Cross-posting the links to the user page and to some his statuses in
the web become more and more popular. But, as i understood, you can't
guarantee that this links not long after would not change the logical
destination. For example I create some post about some twitter-user
aaa and give the link twitter.com/aaa
After that user “aaa” changed name to bbb and user ddd changed
name to aaa. So my old link now points to the different person.
This problem becomes more serious for the aggregators that don't know
what content they might approve after a while.
The simplest decision would be providing the possibility to link to
the user not by name but also by id. That pages might be just
redirections to the original user pages, it doesn't matter.
For example
if the user “aaa” have id 11, the following two links should point
to the same page:
twitter.com/aaa and twitter.com/id/11
This mechanism should also be applied for the statuses:
twitter.com/id/11/statuses/22
Ivan.
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