We also have a sizable cache of this data (around 4 million users) that we are already using in an API format internally at Twitturly. If Twitter approves it, we can add it to our publicly available API. Currently it allows conversion from both ID to username and username to ID one at a time, and in bulk (up to 100 at a time).
Doug or Alex, does the TOS allow us to provide this via our API? -Joel On May 30, 3:28 pm, Dossy Shiobara <do...@panoptic.com> wrote: > On 5/30/09 3:46 PM, David W wrote: > > > [... David asks about bulk resolving of Twitter user IDs to screen_name ...] > > I don't know what the Twitter TOS says, but I've got a sizable cache of > (reasonably fresh) Twitter user data thanks to Twitter Karma. > > Would it be a Twitter TOS violation for me to publish an API to allow > bulk resolution of IDs to screen_name? Is this something that folks > would use if I made it available? > > -- > Dossy Shiobara | do...@panoptic.com |http://dossy.org/ > Panoptic Computer Network |http://panoptic.com/ > "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own > folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
