This is great! But could authentication be made optional? The original API (user/show) isn't, and those who want to replace it might need to go through a lot of code changes...
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com> wrote: > hi all. > > we launched an endpoint yesterday that allows you to fetch 20 users by > user_id or by screen_name at a time -- we call this our "bulk user show" > API. for example, to retrieve user objects for user IDs 12863272, 3191321, > 9160152, 8285392 and simultaneously screen names of rsarver and > wilhelmbierbaum, put together the following authenticated request > > > http://api.twitter.com/1/users/lookup.xml?user_id=12863272,3191321,9160152,8285392&screen_name=rsarver,wilhelmbierbaum > > and you will receive an XML array of those six user objects. > > you can find more documentation at > http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-users-lookup. > > thanks! > > -- > Raffi Krikorian > Twitter Platform Team > http://twitter.com/raffi > -- Harshad RJ http://hrj.wikidot.com
