Ok, thanks! So, in the meantime you would say that the only way to do this is run through all the ids, call http://twitter.com/users/show.xml on each id, and parse out the ursername from the xml returned?
On Dec 24, 2:52 pm, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com> wrote: > we are working on releasing a "bulk lookup API" (i don't have a release date > on it yet), and you will be able to use that for this purpose. > > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Michael <mbw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am using thehttp://twitter.com/friends/ids.xml?screen_name=$username > > method to get a list of friends for a user. However, the friends come > > back as ids. Is there anyway I can convert these ids to their > > usernames? > > -- > Raffi Krikorian > Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi