[twitter-dev] Re: how can I get user address using Twitter API?

2009-08-22 Thread JDG
because degenerate spammers will buy lists of email addresses to market their crappy products. On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 15:41, Allan Zhang wrote: > > Why email addresses equal money? I really can not see the value > > - > Thanks > Allan Zhang > Send from iPhone > > On Aug 22, 2009, at 2:25 PM, Do

[twitter-dev] Re: how can I get user address using Twitter API?

2009-08-22 Thread Allan Zhang
Why email addresses equal money? I really can not see the value - Thanks Allan Zhang Send from iPhone On Aug 22, 2009, at 2:25 PM, Dossy Shiobara wrote: > > On 8/22/09 10:47 AM, Andrew Badera wrote: >> Hopefully most of us use Spam Poison and/or CAPTCHAs to conceal or >> obscure contact addres

[twitter-dev] Re: how can I get user address using Twitter API?

2009-08-22 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 8/22/09 10:47 AM, Andrew Badera wrote: Hopefully most of us use Spam Poison and/or CAPTCHAs to conceal or obscure contact addresses on our site :) Of the ~10M or so Twitter accounts, even if I could get 10% or 1M accounts associated back to valid email addresses, that's like printing your

[twitter-dev] Re: how can I get user address using Twitter API?

2009-08-22 Thread Joseph Cheek
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22follow+me+on+twitter%22+gmail.com as an example... JDG wrote: > surely you're joking. PLEASE tell me you're joking, because my skin is > crawling. > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 08:01, Dossy Shiobara > wrote: > > > On 8/22/09 5:49 AM

[twitter-dev] Re: how can I get user address using Twitter API?

2009-08-22 Thread Andrew Badera
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Dossy Shiobara wrote: > > On 8/22/09 5:49 AM, Andrew Badera wrote: >> >> Spam? Privacy? Call me crazy, I know! > > So, who wants to form a data mining startup that crawls websites for "follow > me on twitter" links to people's twitter IDs, then correlates that to

[twitter-dev] Re: how can I get user address using Twitter API?

2009-08-22 Thread Chris Babcock
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:01:08 -0400 Dossy Shiobara wrote: > Easy revenue model: sell lookups from email -> twitter ID and twitter > ID -> email. That's a fair response to an earlier thread about looking up the Twitter ID by email address. The message to which you were responding had to do with

[twitter-dev] Re: how can I get user address using Twitter API?

2009-08-22 Thread JDG
surely you're joking. PLEASE tell me you're joking, because my skin is crawling. On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 08:01, Dossy Shiobara wrote: > > On 8/22/09 5:49 AM, Andrew Badera wrote: > >> >> Spam? Privacy? Call me crazy, I know! >> > > So, who wants to form a data mining startup that crawls websites

[twitter-dev] Re: how can I get user address using Twitter API?

2009-08-22 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 8/22/09 5:49 AM, Andrew Badera wrote: Spam? Privacy? Call me crazy, I know! So, who wants to form a data mining startup that crawls websites for "follow me on twitter" links to people's twitter IDs, then correlates that to contact email addresses for the site ... Easy revenue model: se

[twitter-dev] Re: how can I get user address using Twitter API?

2009-08-22 Thread Chris Babcock
> > > I am trying to integrate Twitter OAuth with my website. Right now > > > I can use this API > > > (https://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.xml) to get lots > > > of profile information like user ID, screen name, but I didn't > > > any info about the user email address. Is there any API

[twitter-dev] Re: how can I get user address using Twitter API?

2009-08-22 Thread Chris Babcock
> > > I am trying to integrate Twitter OAuth with my website. Right now > > > I can use this API > > > (https://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.xml) to get lots > > > of profile information like user ID, screen name, but I didn't > > > any info about the user email address. Is there any API

[twitter-dev] Re: how can I get user address using Twitter API?

2009-08-22 Thread Andrew Badera
Spam? Privacy? Call me crazy, I know! ∞ Andy Badera ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=(andrew+badera)+OR+(andy+badera) On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Bo Huang wrote: > > Is there any reason twitter doesn't support it? it is

[twitter-dev] Re: how can I get user address using Twitter API?

2009-08-21 Thread Bo Huang
Is there any reason twitter doesn't support it? it is so weird. On Aug 21, 6:03 am, JDG wrote: > no, on purpose. > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 01:08, Bo Huang wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am trying to integrate Twitter OAuth with my website. Right now I > > can use this API (https://twitter.com/accou

[twitter-dev] Re: how can I get user address using Twitter API?

2009-08-21 Thread JDG
no, on purpose. On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 01:08, Bo Huang wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to integrate Twitter OAuth with my website. Right now I > can use this API (https://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.xml) > to get lots of profile information like user ID, screen name, but I > didn't an