Were those changes pushed live? I'm still seeing that user.
Alex Payne wrote: > 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 up by polling users that are no longer valid, and nothing in their 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
