On Facebook, you are identified by a number like 7435423976 that will never change, even after changing your name or your URL shortcut.Does Twitter have the same never-changing identifier?Twitter users have a name (for instance JohnDoe4ever), but they can change it, so it is not a good identifier. Is there a hidden, better one?
Do Twitter accounts have a never-changing identifier?
twitter;twitter integration
Yes, each Twitter Account is assigned a user_id.Taken from the Twitter API Documentationuser_idThe ID of the user for whom to return  results for. Helpful for  disambiguating when a valid user ID is  also a valid screen name.http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?user_id=12345It's also useful to know that you can get the user_id by displaying a users tweet via the /statuses/show/{tweetId} API CallThis will display results similar to this:As you can see the user_id is provided along with the individual tweet information.  The {tweetId} can be found by clicking on the time stamp of any tweet.  The {tweetId} will be long number at the end of the URL.