Done! It's at http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1459
Thanks again for the great service :) Dan On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Raffi Krikorian <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
