That would be an interesting challenge. Now this would only work with active users and for English users but you could mine out probability index of gender using other data around the user.
Basically you could search back on someone's tweets for keywords that allude you to gender. Like someone saying "Us girls have it hard." you could assume a high chance of being female. You could also use the search api and look of people talking about the subject in the third person and you are likely to find the pronouns "he" or "she". For example coming across a tweet like "I love @zbowling. He is awesome.". Other ideas are looking for other gender specific words like "my beard" or "my bra" . Then you might have the privacy advocates (big brother conspiracy nuts) crying fowl though and gender bombing twitter if you release such a service. Zac Bowling http://twitter.com/zbowling On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:28 AM, kazvor...@gmail.com <kazvor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As the subject line implies, I need to know how to programmatically > determine the sex of a profile owner with the API. Is this supported, > in any way at all? Not the sex of the person logged in as the app, but > the owners of the profiles in a search, for example. >
