Try using: http://twitter.com/sessions/present.json
which will return true or false depending on whether the user is logged into the twitter website or not. I think Alex said this is not officially supported, so it may change/go away w/o notice, but for now it works. Not exactly what you are asking for, but the closest thing I think. -Chad On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Ivan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Generally, it would be really interesting to know a user on a webpage > has a twitter account. Clearly, you should patch security holes, but a > tiny piece of javascript to tell the front end whether the user just > has a twitter account would be great. > > We have a tiny alert on the top of http://tipjoy.com that tells people > about our twitter payments. > > Let's just say the font would be a lot bigger if we knew they had a > twitter account. We might even redirect them to another page. > > This is one failing of Facebook Connect actually. Real estate in > widgets like ours is limited ( http://tipjoy.com/banners ), which > means adding a connect button is costly unless we know they have a > Facebook account. They could do it, but they haven't made this > functionality AFAIK. > > Ivan > http://tipjoy.com > > On Jan 12, 6:59 pm, Matt Sanford <[email protected]> wrote: >> Here are the changes launched today, 2009-01-12: >> >> Fixed: some methods were defaulting to JSON when no format was >> specified. A format must be specified for all API calls. >> >> Security: it was possible to discover the currently logged-in user via >> an unauthenticated call to the /statuses/user_timeline method. This is >> a potential privacy concern, and was disabled. >> >> Fixed: Atom feeds for timelines incorrectly reported all user profile >> pictures as image/png. This may take up to a day to propagate through >> all of our caches. >> >> Fixed: Requests with &id= and no value returned a user rather than an >> error. Now an error is returned. >> >> As always you can review changes by checking the change log >> athttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+API+Changelog. >> >> Thanks; >> — Matt Sanford / @mzsanford >
