So in general it's not possible to see that for example that old tweets mentioning e.g., @pumpkingod (my old screen name) are actually referring to user id 13447902 whose current screen name is @copumpkin? Are there any plans to add a way to look those up?
Thanks, Daniel On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Raffi Krikorian <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
