On Dec 4, 5:23 am, "dean.j.robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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]
that seems to work Dean. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/projects$ curl http://twitter.com/users/[EMAIL PROTECTED] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <hash> <request>/users/[EMAIL PROTECTED]</request> <error>Not found</error> </hash> vs a success [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/projects$ curl http://twitter.com/users/[EMAIL PROTECTED] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <user> <id>7291692</id> <name>Someone Who Exists</name> <screen_name>mrsreal</screen_name> ...
