The userid for elliottng appears to be 4696. How did you get the 8467 value?
---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:52 PM, stumm <christop...@stumm.ca> wrote: > I'm doing a call on users lookup and for some reason it's saying IDs > do not exist (for IDs I'd gotten from tweets that I got by doing a > search). For example when looking up the user elliottng (who from a > quick glance doesn't look like spam). The call I'm making is: > http://api.twitter.com/1/users/lookup.json?user_id=8467 > > Strangely if I do the call with the users screen name, it seems to > work. > http://api.twitter.com/1/users/lookup.json?screen_name=elliottng > > Why are these users not showing up when searched by user ID? > > Thanks, > --Christopher > > > -- > Subscription settings: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en >