There was a bug that was addressed and recently fixed for a similar issue in users/show
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=162 You might want to file a similar bug for user_timeline, though I'm not sure if the new parameters for users/show will already work for user_timeline... you might want to try it first. -Chad On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 3:00 PM, RoelandP <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everybody, Twitter! > > If I request the API "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ > bob.json " you'll see Bob's timeline. > > 2 of my followers have the numbered usernames: http://twitter.com/1250 > & http://twitter.com/6868 > > If I request the API with their 'usernames': > > http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/1250.json > http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/6868.json > > I get different users' timelines returned. My best guess is that I get > the timelines from users who's TwitterId's (integers) are 1250 & 6868. > > However If I request http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/2525.xml > (@2525) I do get the correct timeline in the response. > > I use the API for http://m.slandr.net and I am curious if there is a > way to threat the integered - usernames as usernames instead of > numbered userids ? > > Thanks for helping out, > greetings from a sunny Amsterdam
