Question for the folks at Twitter - any stats on how often people change their screen names? In another thread, we were talking about the problem of resolving IDs to names... I'm refreshing my user data for lots of users every few days, in large part to catch screen name changes. I could start keeping track of the changes, but I have not done so yet.
Intuition suggests that users would rarely change their screen names, especially if they are active. Do you have any data to support this? Come to think of it, an API call that would give us names changed since a certain date would be very useful for avoiding the need to check everybody. Even better, return friend or follower names changed since a date. Nick
