So for something like Intersect [1] where I have to do sometimes tens of thousands of profile lookups per hour I should stick with users/show? Or can I get an account whitelisted for more lookups per hour?
Abraham On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 07:48, 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 > -- Abraham Williams | Community Advocate | http://abrah.am TwitterOAuth | http://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.