Updated on Tue, 2012-11-27 11:34
Report the specified user as a spam account to Twitter. Additionally performs the equivalent of POST blocks/create on behalf of the authenticated user.
Resource URL
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/report_spam.json
Parameters
One of these parameters must be provided.
screen_name optional
The ID or screen_name of the user you want to report as a spammer. Helpful for disambiguating when a valid screen name is also a user ID.
Example Values: noradio
user_id optional
The ID of the user you want to report as a spammer. Helpful for disambiguating when a valid user ID is also a valid screen name.
Example Values: 12345
Example Request
POST | |
POST Data | |
{
"name": "Matt Harris",
"profile_sidebar_border_color": "C0DEED",
"profile_sidebar_fill_color": "DDEEF6",
"profile_background_tile": false,
"profile_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/554181350/matt_normal.jpg",
"created_at": "Sat Feb 17 20:49:54 +0000 2007",
"location": "SFO/LHR/YVR/JAX/IAD",
"is_translator": false,
"follow_request_sent": false,
"id_str": "777925",
"profile_link_color": "0084B4",
"entities": {
"url": {
"urls": [
{
"expanded_url": null,
"url": "http://www.themattharris.com",
"indices": [
0,
28
],
"display_url": null
}
]
},
"description": {
"urls": [
]
}
},
"default_profile": true,
"contributors_enabled": true,
"url": "http://www.themattharris.com",
"favourites_count": 213,
"utc_offset": -28800,
"id": 777925,
"profile_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/554181350/matt_normal.jpg",
"profile_use_background_image": true,
"listed_count": 303,
"profile_text_color": "333333",
"protected": false,
"lang": "en",
"followers_count": 7984,
"time_zone": "Pacific Time (US & Canada)",
"profile_background_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png",
"verified": false,
"profile_background_color": "C0DEED",
"notifications": false,
"description": "Part of @twitter's Platform Services. Married to @cindyli. Kryptonite hurts me.",
"geo_enabled": true,
"statuses_count": 4492,
"default_profile_image": false,
"status": {
"coordinates": null,
"favorited": false,
"created_at": "Tue Aug 28 00:11:59 +0000 2012",
"truncated": false,
"id_str": "240240276298420224",
"entities": {
"urls": [
{
"expanded_url": "https://twitter.com/rsarver/status/240224006807117828",
"url": "https://t.co/DdTXEtcd",
"indices": [
71,
92
],
"display_url": "twitter.com/rsarver/status\u2026"
},
{
"expanded_url": "https://twitter.com/rsarver/status/240223841786404864",
"url": "https://t.co/Pq8Sj0sl",
"indices": [
97,
118
],
"display_url": "twitter.com/rsarver/status\u2026"
}
],
"hashtags": [
],
"user_mentions": [
{
"name": "Heilemann",
"id_str": "11656",
"id": 11656,
"indices": [
1,
11
],
"screen_name": "Heilemann"
},
{
"name": "Luke Dorny",
"id_str": "12587",
"id": 12587,
"indices": [
13,
24
],
"screen_name": "luxuryluke"
},
{
"name": "Ryan Sarver",
"id_str": "795649",
"id": 795649,
"indices": [
27,
35
],
"screen_name": "rsarver"
},
{
"name": "Jeremy Keith",
"id_str": "11250",
"id": 11250,
"indices": [
61,
69
],
"screen_name": "adactio"
}
]
},
"in_reply_to_user_id_str": "11656",
"text": ".@Heilemann, @luxuryluke - @rsarver has been clarifying with @adactio: https://t.co/DdTXEtcd and https://t.co/Pq8Sj0sl",
"contributors": null,
"retweet_count": 0,
"id": 240240276298420224,
"in_reply_to_status_id_str": "240226590703898624",
"geo": null,
"retweeted": false,
"in_reply_to_user_id": 11656,
"possibly_sensitive": false,
"place": null,
"possibly_sensitive_editable": true,
"source": "<a href=\"http://twitter.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter for iPhone</a>",
"in_reply_to_screen_name": "Heilemann",
"in_reply_to_status_id": 240226590703898624
},
"friends_count": 430,
"profile_background_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png",
"show_all_inline_media": false,
"screen_name": "themattharris",
"following": true
}