I forgot that we could just fetch their profile via HTTP GET such as: http://twitter.com/users/show/12667242.xml
Do queries such as this count towards the max limit per IP per hour? Thanks. On Feb 28, 9:50 am, Alex <aybarb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm really liking the new social graph API calls and looking at > options for implementing new features in our app based on them. > > The problem is that they return profiles by ID number and not any > other useful info, such as their actual username. > > The only way I can think of offhand to fetch the profile is via the > users/show call, i.e.http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?user_id=12345 > > Is there an easier way to do this? Ideally a way that does not > require user authentication? > > Alternatively, would you consider adding an option for the social > graph calls to return actual usernames instead of the user_id? > > Thanks!
