You've just made a perfect argument for my suggestion that
Twitter use ONLY unchangeable screen names (no more ids) for
the whole system.
:)
Owkaye
I know there's been a ton of request for a
followers/screen_names API, or a friends/screen_names one
for that matter. Right now the only way
I think changeable screen_names are a big problem even outside the
api, for links for example : twitter accounts are linked everywhere
with uri http://twitter.com/screen_name so it may cause 404 if the
user changes his/her screen_name, or worst if someone else takes it,
it will link to the wrong
