Thanks Scott,This is already the approach I've followed and it worked. I created a contact (CSV) file and imported it into a gmail account. It was around 1700+e-mail addresses which correspond to one segment of the customers. I got the list and I copied them and started to omit the information I don't need. But when I tried to work with the second group in order it didn't work as there're 30,000+ e-mail addresses. I tried to split them into 2 groups, it didn't work. Simply the gmail and Yahoo! are not able to import them due to the large number. I didn't get your concern about the ethics and privacy. I didn't crawl those e-mails or buy them. They're our customers and we want to invite them to our page. They gave us their e-mail addresses so willingly and I guess we're not misusing them. Kindly, clarify. Thanks for your reply, Regards Mahmoud
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Scott Haneda <talkli...@newgeo.com> wrote: > > I'm not sure the API can do it, someone here can better answer that. > > I'm not sure the ethics and terms of this, someone here can better answer > that. > > In a roundabout way you can do this. Create a gmail account. Import your > list into gmails address book. Login to your Twitter account and tell the > account settings to use your gmail account to locate Twitter users based on > your gmail address book. > > With a large list like this, you may have to break it up into batches. You > may also be plauged with manually adding them once you see the matches on > screen. I can not remember if there is an "add all" feature. > > Do a small test of 100 adresses. > > From there, it is basic API calls against your Twitter account to do as you > see fit within the terms of the Twitter API and service. > > I do not think it is possible to query email address data in Twitter other > than by the above method with gmail, and a few other providers. Email > addresses are private, as they should be. > -- > Scott > Iphone says hello. > > > On Aug 19, 2009, at 8:07 AM, arawajy <araw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Dear Developers, >> I have a list of 400,000 e-mail addresses of my clients. I want to >> know "Is it possible to develop a script to check if they have a >> twitter account or not?". I will then want to generate 2 separate >> lists based upon the result; one for the twitter users and one for the >> non-twitter users. I want to only invite the users and create a custom >> invitation message. Is it possible to check if the e-mail address's >> owner is a twitter user or not? provide details please. >> Thanks and Regards, >> Mahmoud >> > --
