I just wanted to bring group-wide awareness to the fact that search results from Twitter do not return an actual user_id. This has been a known defect (and yes, I do believe it's a *very large* defect) going on over 2 years now.
This is a call to arms to get this shit fixed. I can't believe it's marked as an "enhancement". There's nobody else to blame for providing a return param of "from_user" that doesn't actually map to an actual user. For those of us storing relational data, you're costing precious API calls for those users who are still utilizing the search API. The streaming API is not sufficient for all use cases, so that's not a valid answer. Below is the direct link to the issue tracker. https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=214 -- 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
