you can use the users/show method http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-users%C2%A0show
and fetch the id On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:55 PM, anthony <mrsmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How can I use the following, if I do not know the numerical ID? > > http://twitter.com/statuses/show/123.xml > > If there is no way, how can I find the numerical ID programmatically? >