How are you getting the user mentions? Is it through statuses/mentions or using search? If you're using search, each result includes a field like this: <link type="image/png" href="http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/ 555555555/of_normal.jpg" rel="image"/> That url is a reference to the user's profile image.
On Sep 2, 5:40 pm, Claudia <cbern...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've asked about this before - so apologies if anyone is re-reading > this... I'm needing to get the profile_image_urls of all the > @user_mentions in a timeline. Right now, it looks like the only way I > can do this without killing rate limit in about an hour (which I just > did) is to send a comma separated-list to users/lookup. However - this > is adding major complications to my app structure, and I'd much rather > avoid it. I can store the returned urls in a local DB, but if enough > people use the app within an hour, it'll still quickly exceed the rate > limit. > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can get this done? Even > better - anyone at Twitter think that the API could return the > profile_image_url with the current @user_mention data.. seems it would > be useful for many. > > Thanks in advance, > Claudia -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
