Twitter4j: How to check twitter account exists or not after getting the credentials from an User?

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Published on 2010-04-27T11:57:38Z Indexed on 2010/05/16 20:10 UTC
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I am creating an application which requires twitter account , after I get credentials from an user , I want to check if that account exists or not. How can I do this with twitter4j ??? Note: I am using Google appengine

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