How can I get twitter current user's gender

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HaikMnatsakanyan picture HaikMnatsakanyan · Oct 18, 2012 · Viewed 10.2k times · Source

I have reviewed the twitter documentation @anywhere where I can use User Object Properties but in the userdata I don't find the gender property.

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Benjamín Martínez picture Benjamín Martínez · Oct 18, 2012

When you create a twitter account it never asks for gender, so you cant get it through the API.

You would need some kind of AI to determine it.

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