Issue 311 - twitter-api - Feature request: method for getting disabled Twitter IDs

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Issue 311:	Feature request: method for getting disabled Twitter IDs
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Status:	Invalid
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Type-Defect
Priority-Medium

Reported by matthew....@ientryinc.com, Feb 23, 2009

As posted on the developer group:

"What I propose is a simple method for grabbing the Twitter IDs of those
accounts which have been permanently removed. If we could have returned an
array of these ids (much the same as the new Social Graphs methods return
only the IDs of a user's friends or followers) it would help us all keep
our systems clear of these defunct accounts. Perhaps options for a since_id
or since_time would also be useful so we only get the IDs we haven't
already cleared out."

Thanks!

Comment 1 by scottclemon, Mar 04, 2009

Another way would be to simply provide these as a RSS/ATOM feed ... are you thinking
this would be an authenticated API call?

I'm guessing that the IDs are not reused ... so the feed could allow a way to request
"since some date/time" to get them all.  The items in the feed could contain daily
removals ...

Anything would be great!

Comment 2 by beiercai, Mar 04, 2009

This will be extremely helpful. Some spammers generate lots of junk data in our
system and we don't have efficient ways to clean them up. (we definitely don't want
to loop through 10s of 1000s of twitter profiles and check each of them). Hopefully
this can be implemented soon.

Comment 3 by igudo1, Apr 21, 2009

This issue has been recorded in the future roadmap: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/V2-Roadmap

Status: Moved

Comment 4 by alexfpayne, Apr 21, 2009

Marking "Invalid" so these issues don't clutter the main view of issues. All are tracked on http://apiwiki.twitter.com/V2-Roadmap

Status: Invalid