Identifying members on Twitter

[inhouseninja]

We are a member based company. Membership is by business not individual. So for instance if your widget business is a member anyone with a johndoe@widget.com email address can sign up and use all our content, portals, etc.

I want to take emails and figure out if they are on Twitter. I know Twitter allows you to search your contact list but this wouldn't be that. It would be a list of emails I create. Are there any tools or suggestions to do this in a efficient way besides searching each individual name on Twitter? Thanks for the help.

[AndieF]

Hi there!

Last time I checked, Twitter didn't have an open API to allow people to search by email addresses. I guess they see this as a potential privacy / spam issue.

That means that tools such as Followerwonk aren't able to build the feature you're after.

So I think you may be out of luck on this occasion.

Perhaps a solution would be to email each of the organisations and invite them to follow you on Twitter?

Kind Regards,

Andrew