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Retrieve Twitter User Profile by User ID

Retrieve detailed user profile information by their Twitter numerical ID.

get/twitter/user/{user_id}

Path parameters

user_idstring required

The numerical ID of the target user profile. When using languages where the user_id value exceeds the default Integer type limit (e.g., JavaScript), you should store user_id as a String. Use the id_str property returned by the API for these values.

Response

Request succeeded

OR

Example response

{
  "id_str": "6253282",
  "name": "Twitter API",
  "screen_name": "twitterapi",
  "location": "San Francisco, CA",
  "url": "https://developer.twitter.com",
  "description": "The Real Twitter API.",
  "protected": true,
  "followers_count": 21,
  "friends_count": 32,
  "listed_count": 9274,
  "favourites_count": 13,
  "statuses_count": 42,
  "created_at": "2009-06-02T20:12:29.000000Z",
  "profile_banner_url": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_banners/819797/1348102824",
  "profile_image_url_https": "https://abs.twimg.com/sticky/default_profile_images/default_profile_normal.png"
}

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