Re: [twitter-dev] Image Uploading

2010-08-03 Thread Andrew W. Donoho
On Aug 2, 2010, at 12:19 , Taylor Singletary wrote: Long story short, we're continuing to iterate on this issue and tweak the image manipulation routines we are using. I'd recommend when uploading images that you assure they are as square as possible before upload, but overall, this is

Re: [twitter-dev] Image Uploading

2010-08-03 Thread Taylor Singletary
No one likes the black bars. We're working on it. Taylor On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Andrew W. Donoho andrew.don...@gmail.comwrote: On Aug 2, 2010, at 12:19 , Taylor Singletary wrote: Long story short, we're continuing to iterate on this issue and tweak the image manipulation routines

[twitter-dev] Image Uploading

2010-08-02 Thread dominiek
Hi there, My name is Dominiek ter Heide and I have a little gimmicky project called Blinkly, slick profile image overlays: http://blink.ly/ Ever since about a month ago I've been experiencing some problems with image uploading through the REST API. I managed to fix this (meaning less failures)

Re: [twitter-dev] Image Uploading

2010-08-02 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi @dominiek, Here's that state of image uploading and the Twitter API (and website): Up until very recently, image upload via the API or on the site was a bit of a crap shoot -- it was a synchronous process, and if our servers couldn't process the image quickly enough or ran into any problems,