There's nothing to worry about. Twitter periodically suspends users for spam and other rogue activities. Such suspended users might still be part of friends/ids but their profile information will not be returned.
-Nischal On Jul 22, 10:56 pm, soung3 <sou...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've encountered an issue with the friends/ids where the IDs returned > can contain IDs of non-existent users. One example of this can be > found when getting the friends of the user id = 16067667 (http:// > api.twitter.com/1/friends/ids.xml?id=16067667). Within the IDs > returned, there is a value = 28745723, which can not be found when > using users/show (http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.xml? > id=28745723). > > Has anyone else encountered the same bug when using the friends/ids or > followers/ids endpoints?
