Bought! :-) Now I just need to cast Time Magicus Level 20 to find the time to develop it.
Zac Bowling On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Alex Payne <a...@twitter.com> wrote: > > http://www.beardorbra.com/ > > 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 >
