They closed the ticket: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=430
I commented to try and get it re-opened. Perhaps a new ticket needs to be opened. If this bug doesn't get fixed, I think what I'll try doing is use javascript to intercept all user requests to vist Twitter.com. I'll check just the webpage's head and look for a 404. If it's a 404 I'll send a message back to my server and verify it's a suspended account via a user show API call, then mark it in my DB. The user will see the error page once, but not a 2nd time. Pain! And even this method has no way of finding suspended accounts that have since been un-suspended. The only way I can think of dealing with that is to constantly check currently suspended accounts to see if they've been reactivated. Maybe we should just refer our complaining users to the ticket issue so they can comment and star it. ;) On Nov 11, 12:14 am, Tim Haines <tmhai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Dusty, > > It's currently assigned to @al3x, I'm sure he'll get to it some day. ;-) > > I have a list of about 28k suspended ids or deleted accounts, out of around > 8m I have on file. I'm pretty sure there's maybe 5% or so false positives > in there, as accounts become unsuspended but I don't have an automatic > process in place checking for that. The 5% guess is based on a manual check > about a month ago. > > I'd be happy to share this list with you if Twitter's not going to provide > something themselves. Perhaps we could swap ids.. > > Cheers, > > Tim. > > > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:12 AM, DustyReagan <dustyrea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If memory serves, Twitter is still returning suspended accounts in the > > followers API calls. I try to identify and mark these users in my own > > database so I don't display them to my end user, however this is a > > difficult and resource intensive task. One in which I have to worry > > about false positives. > > > Does anyone know of a service that is simply a reliable ever updating > > giant list of suspended accounts that I can rub against my database to > > clean it? > > > Alternatively, if the API would stop returning suspended accounts in > > the follow data, I could skip this data cleanup step. ;) This has been > > an issue for at least a year and a half now.http://bit.ly/agSBZ7 > > > -- > > Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc > > API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi > > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > >http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > > Change your membership to this group: > >http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk