I've been trying to extract mentions from some historical tweets I collected
(some a couple of years old) and as the mentions are textual, some of the
screen names have changed. Is there any way to look up a user id based on an
old screen name of that user? Does twitter even maintain that
at 5:18 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote:
there isn't an API call that will give you an old screen name of a user.
mentions are computed both at posting time, and by doing textual lookups
depending on the situation.
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Daniel Peebles pumpkin
request on the google
code tracker?
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Daniel Peebles pumpkin...@gmail.comwrote:
So in general it's not possible to see that for example that old tweets
mentioning e.g., @pumpkingod (my old screen name) are actually referring to
user id 13447902 whose current
