Stop including screen_name in Network API results

osome-iu / hoaxy-backend

Backend component for Hoaxy, a tool to visualize the spread of claims and fact checking

http://hoaxy.iuni.iu.edu/

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Stop including screen_name in Network API results #14

Closed glciampaglia closed 6 years ago

glciampaglia commented 6 years ago

Since screen_name is mutable in Twitter, results from the network endpoint are often stale. This causes several problems, e.g. https://github.com/IUNetSci/hoaxy-botometer/issues/230

By removing the screen name we would force the frontend to only look up users by numeric ID, which is the right thing to do. This change would break the frontend but in doing so it would help us figure out the source of bugs like https://github.com/IUNetSci/hoaxy-botometer/issues/230

glciampaglia commented 6 years ago

Won't fix.