full_name_common

Examine the TSN's profile Name attribute and compare it to common male, female and last names.

This module carries no meaningful purpose at this stage - it is included as informational data and was built in the hope that developers might find it of use in their own processing downstream from the API call.

the Grading from this module does *not* carry weight in the overall scan result. These Grades are merely for informational purposes.

The following output was returned against the scan of a TSN with the profile Name of “Kelly Smith”.

In this instance, a total of 4 matches were made because:

• “Kelly” is a common male name
• “Kelly” is a common female name
• “Kelly” is a common last name
• “Smith” is a common last name

<full_name_common> 
	<date>1266686060</date> 
	<exec_time>52</exec_time> 
	<raw_data> 
		<full_name>kelly smith</full_name> 
		<matches>4</matches> 
		<male>kelly</male> 
		<female>kelly</female> 
		<last>kelly,smith</last> 
	</raw_data> 
	<result>1</result> 
</full_name_common> 

This example demonstrates a single last name match:

<full_name_common> 
	<date>1266696402</date> 
	<exec_time>56</exec_time> 
	<raw_data> 
		<full_name>biz stone</full_name> 
		<matches>1</matches> 
		<male></male> 
		<female></female> 
		<last>stone</last> 
	</raw_data> 
	<result>4</result> 
</full_name_common> 

Of course, some popular non-twam accounts might yield no matches at all:

<full_name_common> 
	<date>1266696540</date> 
	<exec_time>48</exec_time> 
	<raw_data> 
		<full_name>cnn breaking news</full_name> 
		<matches>0</matches> 
		<male></male> 
		<female></female> 
		<last></last> 
	</raw_data> 
	<result>1</result> 
</full_name_common> 

TWASE holds data on the top 2,000 male and female names, plus around 80,000 last names of which only the top 2,000 (in terms of popularity) are considered in when this module is executed.

All name data (male/female/last) has been sourced from US/UK datasets only.

Until more data is gathered on the profile Name in relation to the use by both regular and twam-like accounts, this module should be treated as 'information only'.