On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 14:49:59 +0000, Scott Wilcox <sc...@dor.ky> wrote: > No, there is no API methods to access IP addresses for tweets. I'd suggest > contacting local law enforcement and taking it from there.
Actually, if the victim can afford it, I'd suggest seeing an attorney before contacting law enforcement. Law enforcement tends to be overworked, have pressing priorities and need evidence of an actual crime as defined in their jurisdiction before they'll take any action in most cases. Law enforcement represents "the people" more or less as a whole, while an attorney can and will act on behalf of an individual victim or class of victims, if the alleged offender is threatening more than one person. In any case, good luck to him or her - "cyberbullying" is nasty stuff. > > Scott. > > On 4 Jan 2011, at 14:39, Felipe Knorr Kuhn wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> Although this is probably not the best list to discuss this, perhaps you >> guys have some experience to share. >> >> A friend of mine is being threated by a Twitter user via DMs and public >> messages. >> >> He doesn't know the identity of the user and thought about tracking him >> via the IP he uses to post to Twitter. >> >> The API does not expose IP addresses, does it? >> >> He lives in Brazil and believed he could contact the ISP to track the >> user, since filing an international lawsuit to Twitter asking for this >> information and only then contact the ISP would be very time and money >> consuming. >> >> Thanks, >> >> FK >> >> -- >> 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 > > > Scott Wilcox > > t: +44 (0) 7538 842418 > +1 (646) 257 0580 > e: sc...@dor.ky > w: http://dor.ky -- http://twitter.com/znmeb http://borasky-research.net "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -- Paul Erdős -- 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
