According to the api docs you can pass an email address to the user/
show method, I would assume that if a user didn't exist you'd get back
a 404, which should allow you to determine whether or not the user
exists.

eg: http://twitter.com/users/[EMAIL PROTECTED]



On Nov 30, 5:02 am, "Abraham Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The only way would be to take their password and 
> runhttps://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.xml
>
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 03:28, Kashif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >  I went thru the API documents but couldnt find any API method that
> > allows me to check if a twitter user account exists for a given email
> > address. Is there anyway I can find this using the API?
>
> > Basically the API Input should be an email address. Output should be a
> > twitter username or error code.
>
> > PS: My app user only provides an email address.
>
> > Regards
> > Kashif
>
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