i don't think there is a way to do this currently. could i ask a favor and ask you to note this feature request on the google code tracker?
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Daniel Peebles <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >> > > -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
