feature request on the google
> code tracker?
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> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Daniel Peebles wrote:
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>> So in general it's not possible to see that for example that old tweets
>> mentioning e.g., @pumpkingod (my old screen name) are actually referring
10 at 5:18 PM, Raffi Krikorian wrote:
> there isn't an API call that will give you an old screen name of a user.
> mentions are computed both at posting time, and by doing textual lookups
> depending on the situation.
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> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Daniel Peebles
I've been trying to extract mentions from some historical tweets I collected
(some a couple of years old) and as the mentions are textual, some of the
screen names have changed. Is there any way to look up a user id based on an
old screen name of that user? Does twitter even maintain that informati
