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by tonfa 5447 days ago
Yeah, and people can already link to their twitter from their profile page. So this shouldn't be needed, a simple crawler should be sufficient.
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patrickaljord 5447 days ago
Scraping might not even be needed given that Google has an API for that http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/
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migrochefort 5447 days ago
A crawler offers no warranty that the Twitter username is legit.
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