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James Newton-King
James Newton-King

Reputation: 49042

Link to a Twitter profile using the internal ID rather than the screen name

In my application I have the internal integer ID of a Twitter user and I want to provide a link to their Twitter page, e.g. I have an ID of 123456 for the Twitter account http://twitter.com/thisisanexample and I want to provide a link that resolves to the Twitter account page using the ID.

I know I could query Twitter's web services using the ID and get the screen name but I'd rather not if possible.

Does anyone know if Twitter provides a URL that takes the internal integer ID of the user and redirects to the normal user Twitter profile?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 3254

Answers (1)

Anon
Anon

Reputation: 176

Update: No longer works

Yes. Example:

http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=783214

Upvotes: 16

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