title: Get Twitter User Details without Authentication
body: <p>I have noticed some Twitter Applications manage to get a particular users Location, Name, Profile Image etc using just the twitter username?</p>
  
  <p>Hows is this possible?</p>
  
  <p>I ask because I have not come across any where in the Twitter docs on how you can do this. I can get a users details myself using oAuth when the user provides my app permission but thats it.</p>
  
  <p>Would be grateful if this could be cleared. I hope its not the use of CURL as this is not a good idea in my eyes. If there is another way, is there a PHP implementation that I could use.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you for any help.</p>
  
  <h2>Update</h2>
  
  <p>I did not know that existed! Is there a PHP wrapper or class someone has written to use that ? Sorry, I am complete noob and I relay on wrappers and simple function calls!</p>