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FlipTop is the world’s largest database of social media profiles. This social network API will map social media identities across popular sites to help build things like better address books, smarter CRM systems, improved customer support or highly personalized marketing messages.

Query a social identifier, like a Twitter handle, a Facebook username or a Facebook ID, to get user data:

• The person’s name
• Their location
• A short description, like a Twitter bio
• Their social networking profiles and usernames across the web, including, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and many, many more
• A score of their online influence among their peers, like Klout

The API is powerful, simple, fast and integrates seamlessly with your application. FlipTop facilitates creation of a social graph using a combination of FlipTop’s own crawls, public web directories and APIs. FlipTop consolidates identities by following the public links about people. For example, if a Twitter profile links to a person’s blog and that blog links to their Foursquare page, which then links back to Twitter, we know that all these links are about the same person. The social graph API also makes extensive use of a microformat called rel=“me”, which is used to link profiles together. Combined with powerful heuristics and spam-detection algorithms, the FlipTop social graph API has highly accurate and surprisingly deep results.

Usage

The most common use case is to query by a social network screen name. To do that, use q=[social network].screen_name:[social network screen name]. So, for Twitter, it would be: q=twitter.screen_name:[TWITTER SCREEN NAME].

Try searching for these popular social networks:

• twitter
• facebook
• linkedin
• flickr
• youtube
• yelp
• plancast
• klout
• foursquare
• … and more!

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