If that's the problem you are trying to solve, just make a API call to retrieve the user information for xxx.
-- Hwee-Boon On Mar 18, 11:22 am, "jim.renkel" <ja...@renkel.name> wrote: > Richard, > > I think the problem you're trying to solve here is: given a URL of the > formhttp://twitter.com/xxx, is xxx a valid twitter username? (At > least that's a problem that I'm trying to solve for an application I'm > developing.). > > > Is this everything, or have I missed anything? > > > Richard