I've been browsing the archives and I believe I know the answer to this, but want to confirm.
I'm about to start using the Search API to, obviously, collect tweets and then store summaries of them grouped by matching terms. That will give us some overview stats to display for users which we'd like for them to be able to drill into to see individual tweets. At that point we would like to make them status and the username clickable to take the user to the original status message on the twitter.com . The issue I'm seeing is that I can't reliably create that link because: 1) users can change their screen names 2) there's no way to link directly to a tweet using it's status id I also would rather not start over-using the normal API just to recheck usernames to see if they've changed, especially since my experience is that that's generally infrequent and eventually I'm going to have a lot of cached user data. Am I missing something? Assuming not, and since I also imagine that click-throughs from my site will be low, my current plan is to link to my site w/ the status id, look it up in real-time, and redirect to the actualy twitter.com status message. Anyone have thoughts on that? Additionally, since I may be in a position to provide that as a service, would that be something whitelist-able if we made it publicly available?
