do you have the username? they might be protected, but have given you
access?
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Ryan Rosario <uclamath...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am working on a project where I need to extract some tweets from my
> friends and followers. I follow a couple of employees of Twitter, and
> for some reason, I cannot retrieve the tweets for one of them. In
> Python urllib2, I get a 500 error. In my script, I retry upon a 500,
> but this profile consistently returns a 500 error.
>
> If I use curl to try to retrieve this user's tweets, I get a 500 web
> page ("Thanks for noticing! We'll get on it" or something like that)
> instead of a JSON error return.
>
> I can email privately which user I am talking about because I don't
> want to post it here unless it is ok. Is this is a random problem, or
> is there extra security on employee profiles? I also experience this
> problem when trying to list their tweets in Tweetie.
>
> TIA,
> Ryan
>
