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I just double-checked my profile page, and there is no blank for a Twitter account. How did you scrub the profile field to detect such accounts? (Mine’s the same username between HN, Twitter, and Reddit, among others.)

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I just made a bunch of regular expressions that capture phrases like "http://twitter.com/foobar or "I'm @foobar on twitter", etc.

Did you include https://twitter.com?

Yes, you're in the db. :)

Hehe. You would be surprised (or maybe not) with the number of Chrome extension developers that don't consider https.

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