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I found it surprising too, but your impression is wrong. When you query the Foursquare API for a user, Foursquare returns the user's Facebook and Twitter names
by toffer 15y ago
I found it surprising too, but your impression is wrong.
When you query the Foursquare API for a user, Foursquare returns the user's Facebook and Twitter names in their response (if the user has provided them to Foursquare):
https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/responses/user https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/responses/user (see the "contact" field)
Once you have that, you just query Facebook and Twitter for their publicly available profile, photos, likes, tweets, etc.
- klausa 15y agoThat would explain it, thanks. It seems it actually links to your facebook/twitter from your profile page, at least it does on webapp, I'm not sure how it is on mobile. I think that's wrong default and should be changed.
- asmithmd1 15y agoThe Foursquare API explorer is the best demo of an API I have ever seen: https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/explore https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/explore