Question

I just want to validate that a Twitter user exists. My code is returning 401 Unauthorised with this

$("#getUsr").click(
    function()
    {
        var FindUser = $('#frmTwitter').val();
        $.getJSON(
            'http://api.twitter.com/1/users/' + FindUser + '.json?callback=?', 
            function(json) {
                console.log(json);
            }
        );
    }
);

what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Where did you get that URI from?

Use instead:

'http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?screen_name=' + FindUser

See API doc on users/show