There are parameters available to avoid the ambiguity.
See
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-statuses-user_timeline

Nick

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 7:52 AM, X10 <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> When retrieving statuses with /statuses/user_timeline/1250.xml there's
> an ambiguity. Should Twitter return the tweets for userid=1250 or for
> screenname=1250? Matter of fact, if you use this url for retrieving
> tweets by screen name, you'r ok unless a user has a numeric screen
> name, in which case you get the tweets of another user who happens to
> have that particular user id.
> It's an interesting way of getting to know other Twitter users, but
> I'm not sure it is desired behavior of the system.
>

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