I am now pretty shure that it is Twitter blocking the requests. After an hour, I can check around 50 names. Then suddenly, the script always fails. After waiting for some period, the sctript works again.

It would be so much easier, if the code could provide a useful error message, like "Request ...

thanks for your replies!
"workerpool" is the module for multi threading I think:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/workerpool

The complete code of the name checker was released here:
https://bitbucket.org/matrixik/twitter-usernames-mass-checker

As I am new to Python and did not code this script myself ...

Hi there,

I am new to Python and trying to use a twitter name checker coded by matrixik.
It is working quite well, but after 5-10 iterations checking about 25 names at once, an exception happens:


Exception in thread Thread-18:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python27\lib\threading ...