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Third-party Twitter apps have access to nearly all of Twitter’s functions. Even the new lists feature and the new retweet format can be supported by any ambitious developer. It’s sort of strange then, that Twitter’s people search is just now getting an API.
Now that this missing API is finally here, the ability to search for users should be popping up in your favorite Twitter program very soon. “Find people” on Twitter’s site works by search both name and username, which is something apps couldn’t achieve with the (admittedly very handy) “go to user ” function.
If you’re a curious developer, go check out the official announcement on Twitter’s API announcements list.
Twitter apps now have people search, thanks to a new API originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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