Just to follow up on this, the correct additional fields are: profile_image_url_https profile_background_image_url_https
The original email missed the _url in profile_image_url_https. Best @themattharris On May 16, 3:27 pm, Matt Harris <thematthar...@twitter.com> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Later this week we'll start to add two new fields to the user object > responses from the Streaming and REST APIs (not Search). Due to caching, not > all objects will have these fields immediately so you should check they are > present in the response before using them. > > The two additional fields are the SSL versions of the profile_image_url and > the profile_background_image_url. They will be identified in the user object > by the attributes: > profile_image_https > profile_background_image_url_https > > For example, the @twitter user would look similar to this: > { > "profile_background_tile": false, > "name": "Twitter", > "profile_sidebar_fill_color": "F6F6F6", > "profile_sidebar_border_color": "EEEEEE", > "location": "San Francisco, CA", > "created_at": "Tue Feb 20 14:35:54 +0000 2007", > "profile_image_url": > "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1124040897/at-twitter_normal.png", > "id_str": "783214", > "is_translator": false, > "profile_link_color": "038543", > "follow_request_sent": false, > "default_profile": false, > "contributors_enabled": true, > "favourites_count": 10, > "url": "http://twitter.com", > "utc_offset": -28800, > "id": 783214, > "profile_image_url_https": > "https://si2.twimg.com/profile_images/1124040897/at-twitter_normal.png", > "listed_count": 58963, > "profile_use_background_image": true, > "lang": "en", > "protected": false, > "profile_text_color": "333333", > "followers_count": 5063298, > "notifications": false, > "geo_enabled": true, > "verified": true, > "profile_background_color": "ACDED6", > "profile_background_image_url_https": > "https://si2.twimg.com/images/themes/theme18/bg.gif", > "description": "Always wondering what's happening. ", > "time_zone": "Pacific Time (US & Canada)", > "statuses_count": 1111, > "friends_count": 487, > "default_profile_image": false, > "profile_background_image_url": > "http://a1.twimg.com/images/themes/theme18/bg.gif", > "status": { > "coordinates": null, > "created_at": "Mon May 16 17:23:59 +0000 2011", > "truncated": false, > "favorited": false, > "id_str": "70177690392592384", > "in_reply_to_user_id_str": null, > "text": "Remember in 2009 when @aplusk and @cnn were racing to be the > 1st to reach a million followers? @ladygaga just reached 10 million. Wow!", > "annotations": null, > "contributors": [ > 16739704 > ], > "id": 70177690392592384, > "retweet_count": "100+", > "in_reply_to_status_id_str": null, > "geo": null, > "retweeted": false, > "in_reply_to_user_id": null, > "in_reply_to_screen_name": null, > "source": "web", > "place": null, > "in_reply_to_status_id": null > }, > "screen_name": "twitter", > "show_all_inline_media": true, > "following": true > > } > > Best, > @themattharris > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk