Right. But here's the scenario: User ID 1 has screen name "foo"
You load user ID 1's data. User ID 1 decides that "foo" is a silly screen name and changes it to "bar". A new user, ID 10 signs up and decides that "foo" is an awesome screen name. You load user 10's data. So the important question: if you go look at these IDs with duplicate screen names, are they *currently* duplicates? If so, can you email me affected IDs? ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Sean Callahan <seancalla...@gmail.com> wrote: > That is the problem. User ID's are not suppose to change, though in > our DB we see the same screen name with a different User ID. Of the > 5,000 users in the DB, some have 6 ID's, a few have 5, 4 and 3 ID's > but many have 2 User ID's. We are talking 5,000 users being affected > of 5 million users in our DB. > > Sean > > On Sep 13, 5:46 pm, Mark McBride <mmcbr...@twitter.com> wrote: >> One thought is that people change screen names at some frequency. IDs >> never change. >> >> ---Mark >> >> http://twitter.com/mccv >> >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Sean Callahan <seancalla...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hello Twitter Support, >> >> > We are seeing something really weird. >> >> > We just noticed about 5,000 users in our database that have multiple >> > User ID's under the same Username. >> >> > Have you every seen this and know why it happens and how we can >> > prevent it from occurring again? >> >> > Thanks so much! >> >> > Sean >> >> > -- >> > Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc >> > API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi >> > Issues/Enhancements >> > Tracker:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list >> > Change your membership to this >> > group:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
