Actually, we're just pushing out changes today that excise suspended users from API responses. Sorry for the confusion there.
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:32, Greg Schoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it possible to poll the API for a user's suspended status? > > I am pulling up the show.xml for a suspended user, and nothing on that > page leads me to believe that the account has been suspended. The xml > document would have you believe that nothing is wrong with the > account, that everything is live. However, trying to access their page > directly results in the Suspension message. > > This is a difficult issue because my hourly API calls are being used > up by polling users that are no longer valid, and nothing in their > response leads me to believe this. I could totally bypass the API and > screen scrape the data, but I'm sure that's not looked very highly on, > and it would defeat the purpose of having the API. > > So am I missing something, or is this feature not out there? > > Example: > user: bellyloss > http://twitter.com/users/show/bellyloss.xml returns user data > http://twitter.com/bellyloss returns the /suspended page > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
