>From http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method:-search
Warning: The user ids in the Search API are different from those in the > REST API (about the two APIs <http://apiwiki.twitter.com/API-Overview>). This > defect is being tracked by Issue > 214<http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=214>. > This means that the to_user_id and from_user_id field vary from the > actualy user id on Twitter.com. Applications will have to perform a screen > name-based lookup with the > users/show<http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-users%C2%A0show> > method > to get the correct user id if necessary. You will see from http://api.twitter.com/users/show.json?screen_name=katie_walls that the actual user id is 75030777. Abraham On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:07, ryan baldwin <ryanbald...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, I've noticed some very odd and inconsistent behaviour over > the past couple days that has me stumped. When I use the users/show > endpoint using user_id the response produces a 404. When I use > screen_name of that same user everything works fine. Anybody know what > the scoop is? > > here are a couple of examples: > { > u'iso_language_code':u'en', > u'text':u'Twittering from the eye doctors office. Its kinda > really boring here....', > u'created_at':u'Sat, > 10 Apr 2010 16:20:50 +0000', > u'profile_image_url': u'http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/ > 770801237/CIMG5940_normal.JPG', > u'source': u'<a href="http://ubertwitter.com" > rel="nofollow">UberTwitter</a>', > u'location': u'ÜT:52.138437, > -106.667903 ', u' from_user':u'katie_walls', > u'from_user_id':53548499, > u'to_user_id':None, > u'geo':None, > u'id':11944382350 L, > u'metadata':{ > u'result_type':u'recent' > } > > http://api.twitter.com/users/show.json?user_id=53548499 (404) > http://api.twitter.com/users/show.json?screen_name=katie_walls (200, > works fine) > > Any ideas? I'm at a complete loss and I'm really not looking forward > to the repair costs of the hole I've made in the wall with the top of > my head. > > Thanks! > > - ryan. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. > -- Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am PoseurTech Labs | Projects | http://labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.