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On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:18, Zac Bowling <zbowl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. >> > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
