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Re:Find the Google+ profile of people you follow on Twitter by tonfa on Sunday July 17, 2011 @07:09PM (#2774472)
Yeah, and people can already link to their twitter from their profile page. So this shouldn't be needed, a simple crawler should be sufficient.
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Re:Find the Google+ profile of people you follow on Twitter by patrickaljord on Sunday July 17, 2011 @09:53PM (#2774815)
Scraping might not even be needed given that Google has an API for that http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/
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Re:Find the Google+ profile of people you follow on Twitter by migrochefort on Sunday July 17, 2011 @08:02PM (#2774573)
A crawler offers no warranty that the Twitter username is legit.
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