Re: [twitter-dev] Seeing duplicate Twitter User ID's under the same Username in our DB

2010-09-13 Thread Mark McBride
One thought is that people change screen names at some frequency.  IDs
never change.

   ---Mark

http://twitter.com/mccv



On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Sean Callahan  wrote:
> Hello Twitter Support,
>
> We are seeing something really weird.
>
> We just noticed about 5,000 users in our database that have multiple
> User ID's under the same Username.
>
> Have you every seen this and know why it happens and how we can
> prevent it from occurring again?
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> Sean
>
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[twitter-dev] Seeing duplicate Twitter User ID's under the same Username in our DB

2010-09-13 Thread Sean Callahan
Hello Twitter Support,

We are seeing something really weird.

We just noticed about 5,000 users in our database that have multiple
User ID's under the same Username.

Have you every seen this and know why it happens and how we can
prevent it from occurring again?

Thanks so much!

Sean

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