Thanks for clarifying this further Stuart. It makes much sense now.
Chris
On Jul 3, 5:05 pm, Stuart wrote:
> 2009/7/3 Christian Fazzini :
>
>
>
> > Currently, we are saving the images onto our server. If we can hotlink
> > the images to S3. This would save us storage space. However, the only
>
2009/7/3 Christian Fazzini :
>
> Currently, we are saving the images onto our server. If we can hotlink
> the images to S3. This would save us storage space. However, the only
> drawback is, whenever a user loads a page on our website, it would
> have to connect to the S3 servers everytime, to loa
Currently, we are saving the images onto our server. If we can hotlink
the images to S3. This would save us storage space. However, the only
drawback is, whenever a user loads a page on our website, it would
have to connect to the S3 servers everytime, to load the images on our
site.
If, on the o
Anyone?
On Jul 1, 4:17 pm, Christian Fazzini
wrote:
> hmmm
>
> On Jun 30, 10:45 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Twitter has said in the past they are more then willing to take care
> > of the bandwidth for smaller applications but if you go huge they ask
> > you to look at
Anyone?
On Jul 1, 4:04 pm, Christian Fazzini
wrote:
> So is this wrong if I save the image and user details locally (on our
> server) ?
>
> Also, how would it be possible to get the users profile pic
> athttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-users%C2%A0show
> using ?
>
> At c
hmmm
On Jun 30, 10:45 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Twitter has said in the past they are more then willing to take care
> of the bandwidth for smaller applications but if you go huge they ask
> you to look at local caching.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 08:12, Philip Plante
So is this wrong if I save the image and user details locally (on our
server) ?
Also, how would it be possible to get the users profile pic at
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-users%C2%A0show
using ?
At current it only returns _normal.jpg, which is set at 43x43. I need
the
Twitter has said in the past they are more then willing to take care
of the bandwidth for smaller applications but if you go huge they ask
you to look at local caching.
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 08:12, Philip Plante wrote:
>
> You can cache the user's profile data so API lookups are kept to a
> min
You can cache the user's profile data so API lookups are kept to a
minimum. Though the profile image should be hotlinked using whatever
value is stored int he profile_image_url attribute of the user object
returned from Twitter. By using S3 as a central source Twitter is
able to help alleviate i
