Danbooru

A suggestion for the ID-based Twitter profile URLs

Posted under Bugs & Features

When adding a Twitter profile as an URL to an artist page, it seems that
Danbooru automatically adds an ID-based counterpart for the profile:

For example: https://twitter.com/chinpokonyan

Becomes: https://twitter.com/intent/user?user_id=1019840024026570753

This is good, as it prevents losing the profiles, because Twitter names can
change and thus break the URL.

The problem

However, there’s one drawback in the intent/user?user_id= URL format:
when opening these links, Twitter will always show an annoying “follow this user” dialog.

The suggestion

I think it would be better to use the following format instead:

https://twitter.com/i/user/1019840024026570753.

This will also redirect to the correct user profile, but without the follow nag.

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