Yes, please do: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:28, jstrellner <[email protected]> wrote: > > I second this, it would be useful. Although, if you are requesting > info for that user, Twitter should be returning that the user no > longer exists, and your app should remove them. > > Your solution would be good for bulk cleans, but incremental would > probably be more efficient. > > So while it would be useful, I'm not sure its required. I'll vote 1/2 > of a +1, as it would be nice to have available, but here are more > important things. > > Maybe you should add it to their API feature request site? > > iematthew wrote: >> I haven't seen anything on the group or otherwise for a basic house- >> cleaning method for getting a list of suspended/canceled/deleted >> Twitter accounts. As our Twitter apps continue to grow, having methods >> for clearing out the dead wood from our systems would be quite useful. >> I don't think anyone wants to end up a few years down the road with a >> million non-existent Twitter accounts in their system, and I don't >> think it helps Twitter to have traffic coming back to them for >> accounts that no longer exist. >> >> What I propose is a simple method for grabbing the Twitter IDs of >> those accounts which have been permanently removed. If we could have >> returned an array of these ids (much the same as the new Social Graphs >> methods return only the IDs of a user's friends or followers) it would >> help us all keep our systems clear of these defunct accounts. Perhaps >> options for a since_id or since_time would also be useful so we only >> get the IDs we haven't already cleared out. >> >> Thoughts on this? > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
