Is there a way to check if a twitter username exists?
Without being authenticated with OAuth or the twitter basic authentication?
Is there a way to check if a twitter username exists? Without being authenticated
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Is there a way to check if a twitter username exists?
Without being authenticated with OAuth or the twitter basic authentication?
UPDATE: This API is not available since 2012.
According to the api docs you can pass an email address to the user/
show method, I would assume that if a user didn’t exist you’d get back
a 404, which should allow you to determine whether or not the user
exists.
eg: http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?email=t…@example.com
result if not exist :