Find Twitter User ID
Listen to the instructions
Using a desktop browser
- Go to your private messages in Twitter
https://twitter.com/messages/ - Click on a few chats and compare the IDs in the URL
https://twitter.com/messages/id1-id2 - Identify which ID stays the same
- Congrats, this is your personal Twitter User ID 🥳
Why?
I've stumbled upon this cool link on the website https://danestves.com by @danestves which opens a private chat on Twitter with the specified recipient in this case Daniel of course.
As I like the idea of using deep-links like this or direct share URLs which don't require JavaScript I decided to add it to my page.
Only problem was that I didn't know my Twitter User ID 😳 and all tutorials I've found wouldn't work anymore because of design changes in the Twitter frontend.
Alternatives were trusting a website with my data (I know it's public but anyway) or using the Twitter API myself, which I haven't started using yet 😅
You can try it out using PM via Twitter link right below this post. 💬
Doing web-development since around 2000, building my digital garden with a mix of back-to-the-roots-use-the-platform and modern edge-rendered-client-side-magic tech 📻🚀
Living and working in Cusco, Perú 🦙