Twitter API Explorer

users/show

Returns extended information of a given user, specified by ID or screen name as per the required id parameter. The author's most recent status will be returned inline.

http://twitter.com/users/show.{{response_format}}

1 call per request

One of the following parameters is required:

  • Specfies the ID of the user to return. Helpful for disambiguating when a valid user ID is also a valid screen name.

  • Specfies the screen name of the user to return.

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  • Requests for protected users without credentials from 1) the user requested or 2) a user that is following the protected user will omit the nested status element. Only publicly available data will be returned in this case.
  • You can also use the (ambiguous) parameter - id. The ID or screen name of a user. (Example: http://twitter.com/users/show/12345.json or http://twitter.com/users/show/bob.xml)


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