When you get the access token back from Twitter after the OAuth step, it should also include some basic user information - including the user id, from memory.
Hope this helps, Tom On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:56 PM, xhe <hexuf...@gmail.com> wrote: > I now want to enable user to link their twitter account to our > website, that means, after OAuth, twitter will forward user to my > website, and then I want to retrieve that user's profile, such as > twitterId, name..., and prefill the form for user to register. > This steps is pretty straightforword, just like any other social > websites, such as linkedIn, myspace. But I didn't realize that after > Oauth step, I am lost in finding a suitable API to retrieve that > user's profile. > I would like to use this one, > http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.format > But this API require the userID or screenName, that is what I don't > have. > So question is: how to retrieve the userId or screen name and other > profile information for the user? > Thanks >
