Hi, This service isn't currently offered in the API. For a number of reasons, such as permitted username changes, account deletions, and the like, this turns out to be a very tricky problem to solve on your own.
How would you use this method? Since users still have to go through the Twitter.com registration workflow, aren't they already given a chance to fumble around and find an available username during the process? Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:26 PM, sujamthe <sujam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am also looking for the same as @MikeP > > Want to offer the ability to find the twitter id of a user by their > full name from a web app. So, is there a way to do "find on twitter by > use name" similar to http://twitter.com/invitations/find_on_twitter > using an API call? > > thanks, > Sudha > > On Mar 17, 10:43 am, MikeP <harvardhig...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I am not really looking to identify interests, I am looking to >> identify user name. So if someone searches for a user name, they get >> all the closely matching usernames returned. Exactly like the "Search >> for People on Twitter" functionality on the site itself...any ideas? >> >> On Mar 17, 7:23 am, Doug Williams <d...@twitter.com> wrote: >> >> > Mike, >> > What criteria are you looking to use to identify interests? Words >> > tweeted, information in profile bios, user names? >> >> > Doug Williams >> > Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw >> >> > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 7:18 PM, MikeP <harvardhig...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > > Does anyone know if it's possible to do a search to "Find People on >> > > Twitter" using the current search API? It appears that you can search >> > > for tweets from a person but that only yields one result at best. I >> > > am looking to incorporate a functionality like Twitter itself has on >> > > their site (Finding Twitter users) in a third party application. For >> > > example, if I do a search on Twitter from "Live Nation", I get the >> > > different Live Nation Tweeters. But it doesn't appear that I can do >> > > this through the API. The only thing I can do through the advanced >> > > search API is tweets from a person. Any ideas? >
