However, there's still no way to reference a tweet using the user id. See http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1242
On Feb 23, 2:47 pm, Paul Tarjan <ptar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perfect, Marc hit the nail on the head. Thank you. > > http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=14757201 > > On Feb 23, 10:53 am, Marc Mims <marc.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > * Lil Peck <lilp...@gmail.com> [100223 10:48]: > > > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Paul Tarjan <ptar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Is there a permanent profile URL for users? Something like > > > > >http://twitter.com/account/profile?user_id=14757201 > > > > > I'd like something that is ID based (since users can change their > > > > short form) but is guaranteed to resolve for a while. Possibly even > > > > 302ing to thehttp://twitter.com/<name> > > > > > I could use > > > > >http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.xml?user_id=14757201 > > > > > but it is rather long and doesn't return any nice HTML > > > > You could make a custom TinyURL. > > >http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=14757201 > > > -Marc- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
