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		mittermayr on Nov 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My popular Twitter Analytics app has reached tech... well, they'd find out eventually, that's my worry. it's tough to speculate on something like this. this is the culprit call: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/users/lookup i store anything that might provide sensible statistics later on from that response (so no profile colors or photos)

adrinavarro on Nov 5, 2012 [–]

Well, it's intended to work with followers/ids and other calls. Twitter might go against you, but that would be disregarding your calls… If they pull the plug it will be because of features, not because of how you use the API :(

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