GET /users/search returns profile search results based on names, screen_names, bios, etc so yes.
You can use a single account to authenticate but you might run into rate limit issues. To avoid that you can have your users authenticate using OAuth to do the searches. Abraham ------------- Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate | http://abrah.am @abraham | http://projects.abrah.am | http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:42 AM, PhilGo20 <gauvin.phili...@gmail.com>wrote: > Should I undeerstand that what we are trying to achieve is possible > with current methods ? > > On 11 juin, 14:17, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The thread is old and from before the API method was available. > > > > Abraham > > ------------- > > Abraham Williams | Hacker Advocate |http://abrah.am > > @abraham |http://projects.abrah.am|http://blog.abrah.am > > This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. > > > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:15 AM, PhilGo20 <gauvin.phili...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > I've seen the same topic already, but I am just wondering if there's > > > been any update > > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread. > .. > > > > > We are looking to integrate Twitter Profile results on our People > > > Search site and would like to know if this is currently possible. We > > > would basically pass a name and expect to get results mathing user > > > name or full name for users. > > > > > It seems supported by the user/search method : > > >http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/search > > > > > I am just wondering why the previous thread creator was reply that it > > > was not supported. > > > > > I understand the method requires authentification and would like to > > > know if our client could be authentified and make the query on the > > > user behalf, so this way he would not have to authentify himself to > > > perform a search. >
