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I have just the twitter handle on a new line, if someone has 1 word on a new line starting with @ it's probably pretty safe to assume its a twitter.
by robryan 15y ago
I have just the twitter handle on a new line, if someone has 1 word on a new line starting with @ it's probably pretty safe to assume its a twitter.
- DanielRibeiro 15y agoThanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it. However, the biggest problem is finding such users. HNSearchAPI is not complete (for instance, fogus is not listed when you search for "twitter"[1], but is when you search for "twitter.com"[2]). Which requires quite a lot of crawling (the unnofficial api helps sometimes[3], and sometimes it doesn't[4]). And HN robots is quite restrictive[5] [1] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=twitter&sortby=karma+desc http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=twitter&#... [2] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=twitter.com&sortby=karma+desc&start=0 http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=twitter.c... [3] http://api.ihackernews.com/page http://api.ihackernews.com/page [4] http://api.ihackernews.com/post/3118358 http://api.ihackernews.com/post/3118358 [5] http://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt http://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt