http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?email=a...@twitter.com
That parameter used to be in the API Docs but is missing now.
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 07:58, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote:
Q: Is there a way in the API to input an email address and output a
twitter username? I couldn't see anything in
There is no supported way to get a user ID given an email address. The
undocumented parameter Abraham mentioned has been deprecated and will cease
to work shortly.
Doug Williams
Twitter API Support
http://twitter.com/dougw
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote:
There is no supported way to get a user ID given an email address. The
undocumented parameter Abraham mentioned has been deprecated and will cease
to work shortly.
Will it be replaced by another way?
Seems like an
I can't find documentation anywhere of the deprecation. It seems like
deprecations should be announced better then new features so developers can
make the modifications before their application breaks.
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 08:58, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote:
There is no supported
Abraham,
When looking at the logs we saw little evidence of intended use and an
abundance of spam activity. Thus, we decided to remove the parameter for
security and privacy concerns.
You are correct, deprecation should be better documented and we will do a
better job of publicly describing the
I've made a suggestion that this be left for authenticated API calls
and/or registered developers:
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=353
I'm glad TwitterCo is being proactive in protecting this information,
but there's a lot of utility to be had keeping it for the legit
