Currently it would require a URL to be constructed after getting the username from users/show [1]. I will find out if there is interest in an ID based redirect as have you suggested.
1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-users%C2%A0show Thanks, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Brian Ellin <brianel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We're in the process of implementing twitter auth into a service that > already supports OpenID. As such, we are using a URL as the user > identifier, which is the standard idiom in the OpenID world. Since a > user can change their screen name, the twitter profile URL is not > reliable for use in authentication and we must use the id field. Does > there currently exist a URL on twitter which will accept a user_id as > the parameter and redirect to the user's (current) profile page? > > For example, using Doug W's user_id (1401881) and screen name (dougw) > as an example, does there exist a URL on twitter such that > http://twitter.com/users/profile?user_id=1401881 redirects to > http://twitter.com/dougw? > > If not, would you be willing to add such a feature? > > Thanks, > Brian Ellin (@brianellin) > http://rpxnow.com/ > >
