there isn't an API call that will give you an old screen name of a user. mentions are computed both at posting time, and by doing textual lookups depending on the situation.
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Daniel Peebles <[email protected]>wrote: > I've been trying to extract mentions from some historical tweets I > collected (some a couple of years old) and as the mentions are textual, some > of the screen names have changed. Is there any way to look up a user id > based on an old screen name of that user? Does twitter even maintain that > information? Do the API methods for mentions simply extract possible > mentions at posting time or are they doing a textual lookup as well? > > Thanks, > Daniel > -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
