Get User Profile Coming up Blank for Only Some Profiles

[PCoop001]

Please confirm the following

• I have searched the existing issues
• The behaviour of the program is deviated from what is described in the documentation.
• I can reproduce this problem for more than one time.
• This is NOT a 3-digit error -- it does not display an error message like something went wrong. Status code: 400.
• This is a 3-digit error and I have consulted the Understanding API errors vignette and the suggestions do not help.

Describe the bug

I have a list of user profile IDs where I am trying to collect profile information. For most of my list, I get the expected results; however, for some user profiles, I am not getting any results. When I try running get_user_profile() on these IDs individually, they are still returning back as blank. I added a few examples in the code below....why aren't these IDs returning results?

Expected Behavior

I expect that I would get each user's profile information, but my results return blank.

Steps To Reproduce

`Y <- list(
795174703878942000,
854692626015993000,
702102837807996000,
1330231762543370000,
1245801375298090000,
1147586237982740000)

get_user_profile(Y, bearer_token =)'

Environment

R version 4.1.2 (2021-11-01)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 18363)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods
[7] base

other attached packages:
[1] readxl_1.3.1 academictwitteR_0.3.0
[3] rtweet_0.7.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_1.0.7 rstudioapi_0.13 magrittr_2.0.1
[4] usethis_2.1.3 tidyselect_1.1.1 R6_2.5.1
[7] rlang_0.4.12 fansi_0.5.0 dplyr_1.0.7
[10] httr_1.4.2 tools_4.1.2 utf8_1.2.2
[13] cli_3.1.0 withr_2.4.3 askpass_1.1
[16] ellipsis_0.3.2 openssl_1.4.5 tibble_3.1.6
[19] lifecycle_1.0.1 crayon_1.4.2 purrr_0.3.4
[22] later_1.3.0 vctrs_0.3.8 promises_1.2.0.1
[25] fs_1.5.0 curl_4.3.2 glue_1.5.0
[28] cellranger_1.1.0 compiler_4.1.2 pillar_1.6.4
[31] generics_0.1.1 jsonlite_1.7.2 httpuv_1.6.3
[34] pkgconfig_2.0.3

Anything else?

N/A

[chainsawriot]

@PCoop001 This is probably not a bug. Instead, some user ids might return empty results because those accounts are no longer available, e.g. deleted by the users themselves or by Twitter.

[PCoop001]

@chainsawriot But these are all active accounts, so they were not deleted by the user or Twitter. Here's an example of one:
Username=RenoHemonc, ID=795174703878942000.

[chainsawriot]

@PCoop001 Thanks for providing an example. His user id is not the same as the one you provided. An account could have changed its user_id for a variety of reasons.

require(academictwitteR)
#> Loading required package: academictwitteR
get_user_id("RenoHemonc")
#>           RenoHemonc 
#> "795174703878942721"
get_user_profile("795174703878942721")
#> Processing from 1 to 1
#>                                     description url protected
#> 1 Doing my part to help onc patients. + fintwit         FALSE
#>   public_metrics.followers_count public_metrics.following_count
#> 1                           2229                           2374
#>   public_metrics.tweet_count public_metrics.listed_count
#> 1                      33253                          40
#>                                                              profile_image_url
#> 1 https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1469222955271950337/HNDnB_sZ_normal.jpg
#>                   id               created_at   username            name
#> 1 795174703878942721 2016-11-06T08:03:17.000Z RenoHemonc Santhosh Ambika
#>   location verified
#> 1 Reno, NV    FALSE

^{Created on 2021-12-16 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)}