That's already what i do. i do lookupusers with the screennames On 2010-05-18, at 11:57 AM, Taylor Singletary wrote:
> Hi Alain, > > The user ids in search results from search.twitter.com do not correspond to > the user ids in rest of Twitter and the Twitter API. We're working on > bridging this gap long-term. The work around is to do a user lookup based off > of the screen name instead of the member id. > > Taylor Singletary > Developer Advocate, Twitter > http://twitter.com/episod > > > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Alain Gaeremynck <[email protected]> wrote: > I am using search to gather a series of twits. I am then looking up the > users that wrote those tweets. Now sometimes for some reason i get an error > message "no user found on twitter : userhandle" > > The problem with this is that i have to parse the error message figure out > which user is missing. Rebuild the request with the rest of the users and try > again. > > It would be cool if instead when there are no such users i would get a list > of the user that exists and null or some string in the json for those that > don't. In an ideal world search would never give me results for users that > don't exists (although i guess profiles get deleted all the time). > > Does this make sense? > > Alain (@sanssucre) G > > P.S. Can you get the ops people to posts the VM startup parameters they use? > I'm very curious to see what they do in that regard. >
