twitter sign-on and user_id based urls

[Brian Ellin]

We're in the process of implementing twitter auth into a service that
already supports OpenID. As such, we are using a URL as the user
identifier, which is the standard idiom in the OpenID world. Since a
user can change their screen name, the twitter profile URL is not
reliable for use in authentication and we must use the id field. Does
there currently exist a URL on twitter which will accept a user_id as
the parameter and redirect to the user's (current) profile page?

For example, using Doug W's user_id (1401881) and screen name (dougw)
as an example, does there exist a URL on twitter such that
http://twitter.com/users/profile?user_id=1401881 redirects to
http://twitter.com/dougw?

If not, would you be willing to add such a feature?

Thanks,
Brian Ellin (@brianellin)
http://rpxnow.com/

[Doug Williams]

Currently it would require a URL to be constructed after getting the username from users/show [1]. I will find out if there is interest in an ID based redirect as have you suggested.

1. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-users%C2%A0show

Thanks,
Doug
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Doug Williams
Twitter Platform Support
http://twitter.com/dougw

[Juan Antonio Cano]

There you have.

http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=XXXXX

[Abraham Williams]

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On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 17:31, Juan Antonio Cano <jaca...@gmail.com> wrote:

There you have.

http://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id?id=XXXXX

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