[twitter-dev] Re: Profile image urls - how to update

2009-07-12 Thread Doug Williams
Shannon, We have decided not to proceed with static URLs. Please see the recent thread on the image host change for more information. Thanks, Doug On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Shannon Whitley wrote: > > I recall seeing a post from a Twitter employee that static profile > image urls would

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile image urls - how to update

2009-07-12 Thread Shannon Whitley
I recall seeing a post from a Twitter employee that static profile image urls would be delivered sometime in June 2009. Do we have any updates? Thanks. On May 21, 6:14 pm, Doug Williams wrote: > Thanks for your patience guys -- we realize the benefits of predictable > static URLs. It's unfor

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile image urls - how to update

2009-07-01 Thread Francis Shanahan
Has there been any update or advance on how to keep Profile Images up to date? They're driving my nuts, especially with the Iran green- overlay nonsense. -fs On May 22, 12:36 pm, Ollie Parsley wrote: > Haven't figured out caching yet. Thats on the agenda after a weekend > break :) > > Ollie >

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile image urls - how to update

2009-05-22 Thread Ollie Parsley
Haven't figured out caching yet. Thats on the agenda after a weekend break :) Ollie On May 22, 11:56 am, Neil Ellis wrote: > Good call Ollie, caching? > > On 22 May 2009, at 11:11, Ollie Parsley wrote: > > > > > I put a very quick app together called "Twavatars" that creates a > > static URL to

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile image urls - how to update

2009-05-22 Thread Neil Ellis
Good call Ollie, caching? On 22 May 2009, at 11:11, Ollie Parsley wrote: > > I put a very quick app together called "Twavatars" that creates a > static URL to a profile image. The request does an API call and > streams the image from the S3 url. This does make the images load > slower but it is

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile image urls - how to update

2009-05-22 Thread Ollie Parsley
I put a very quick app together called "Twavatars" that creates a static URL to a profile image. The request does an API call and streams the image from the S3 url. This does make the images load slower but it is only a temporary solution untill there is an official solution. So it is fine when di

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile image urls - how to update

2009-05-21 Thread Abraham Williams
Speaking of static avatar URLs... how about Gravatar[1] support? [1] http://en.gravatar.com/ On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 18:14, Doug Williams wrote: > Thanks for your patience guys -- we realize the benefits of predictable > static URLs. It's unfortunately kind of back-burner work but we're getting

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile image urls - how to update

2009-05-21 Thread Doug Williams
Thanks for your patience guys -- we realize the benefits of predictable static URLs. It's unfortunately kind of back-burner work but we're getting to it. As most of you can tell, the image uploading logic needs a lot of love. Cheers, Doug -- Doug Williams Twitter Platform Support http://twitter.c

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile image urls - how to update

2009-05-21 Thread Tim Haines
Hi Clint, Thanks for that. I've added myself to the watchlist. I saw a similar note from 2007, so was hoping it was already done - but 'a month or so' sounds good to me. Tim. On May 21, 10:24 pm, Clint Shryock wrote: > the API team is in the process of re-engineering this functionality: in t

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile image urls - how to update

2009-05-21 Thread Clint Shryock
the API team is in the process of re-engineering this functionality: in the future the current profile image will have a static URL.see: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=497#c8 +Clint On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Tim Haines wrote: > > Hey there, > > I'm caching profile

[twitter-dev] Re: Profile image urls - how to update

2009-05-21 Thread Abraham Williams
Currently you are only option is calling users/show.xml on each account. 2009/5/21 Tim Haines > > Hey there, > > I'm caching profile image urls. I'm finding quite a bit of churn, and > have started wondering how I'm going to keep them up to date. > > Is there anyway to predict or determine a pr