We plan to support this. It's on the todo list. Thanks for the suggestion.
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Damon Clinkscales <sca...@pobox.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Marcel Molina <mar...@twitter.com> wrote: >> >> Hey folks. As some of you have likely read we're starting to do some >> private beta testing of our new lists feature. We're not quite ready >> to open it up to everyone but we've made some headway on the API and >> wanted to share some details of what we've got so far. >> >> There are a handful of things on our todo lists so don't consider this >> signed and sealed just yet. > > Marcel, > > It would be nice if we could pass in either the user_id or the > screen_name, wherever you are currently requiring a Twitter user id. > This would be consistent with the rest of the REST API (and quite > useful, saving an extra call). > > Thanks, > -damon > -- > http://twitter.com/damon > -- Marcel Molina Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/noradio