URL link to Twitter user with ID, not name

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I want to have a link to my twitter page that references it with my twitter ID and not twitter name. This is because I want to build the link into an app and the twitter name for the account may change in future.

Any chance on telling us what programming language you want this in? — Neil Knight, Nov 09 '10 at 11:04
So instead of www.twitter.com/someaccount I would like to refer to that page with someaccount's id. — Matt, Nov 09 '10 at 21:22
This is unfortunate twitter does this. I was hoping you could do something like twitter.com/?id=819999. Facebook and LinkedIn both have ability to use the id instead of the username. — Scott, Jul 20 '11 at 16:17

Saša Tomislav Mataić · Answer 1 · 2013-11-27T02:02:22.310

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After struggling with this issue for a while, found a solution which works on mobile:

https://twitter.com/intent/user?user_id=XXX

Source: https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/3386

edited Nov 27 '13 at 02:02

answered Nov 26 '13 at 07:37

Saša Tomislav Mataić

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Works as of April 12, 2018. Thanks. – fmerhout Apr 14 '18 at 19:39
Works on desktop too! – Dan Jacobson May 28 '19 at 08:20
if you only have the username you could do `https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=XXXX` – Angel S. Moreno Jul 04 '21 at 18:37
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Works as of Jan 4, 2022. I should mention it displays a popup suggesting to follow the account though. If that's something you'd rather avoid, use the `https://twitter.com/i/user/2857023470` approach suggested by Mert S. Kaplan below – mzrnsh Jan 04 '22 at 16:53

score 84 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 16 '18 at 12:17

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UPDATE: This answer doesnt work after 2013 (Read the official response in twitter's forum). For an alternate method see quarkon's answer.

Original Answer:

Use ID in the end of this url, like:

https://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id/783214

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answered Jan 19 '12 at 03:55

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You can also make it look a little more pretty: https://twitter.com/account/redirect_by_id/76816072 - unfortunately still does not work when Twitter does a mobile redirect to the mobile.twitter.com subdomain. – Phil Jun 25 '13 at 22:40
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This method no longer works on desktop either and will return a 404 error page. – gorner Sep 09 '14 at 13:51

score 47 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 07 '19 at 17:12

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You can use new URL structure: https://twitter.com/i/user/50988711

Note: At the point of referral to mobile application is not yet stable.

answered Jul 07 '19 at 17:12

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Is this URL documented somewhere? – Michele Gargiulo Apr 17 '20 at 09:49
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make this answer accepted. A lot has changed since 2013 – Filip Bartuzi Jul 11 '20 at 00:08
Looks like this is documented here https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/web-intents/overview – gelraen May 16 '22 at 09:04

URL link to Twitter user with ID, not name

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