On May 30, 11:28 pm, Dossy Shiobara <do...@panoptic.com> wrote:
> On 5/30/09 3:46 PM, David W wrote:
>
> > [... David asks about bulk resolving of Twitter user IDs to screen_name ...]
>
> I don't know what the Twitter TOS says, but I've got a sizable cache of
> (reasonably fresh) Twitter user data thanks to Twitter Karma.
>
> Would it be a Twitter TOS violation for me to publish an API to allow
> bulk resolution of IDs to screen_name? Is this something that folks
> would use if I made it available?
In comment to your TOS question: Twitter as a company seem a whole lot
more liberal (and realistic) when it comes to their data. I think I
may have even read this somewhere semiofficial in the past. Profile
information itself is also available to the public, and so, keeping a
local cache is probably no more harmful (from Twitter's perspective)
than what happens when a search engine crawls a user's profile page.
Compare and contrast to Facebook's approach. :P
David.
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