Re: [twitter-dev] Global twitter profile image URL
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: probably more than a single day :P yes - we have thought about it... its low on our priority list right now, however. It would be tremendously useful, for sure. If CNAME is too complex/cumbersome, a simple HTTP redirect would be fine with me to begin with. -- Harshad RJ http://hrj.wikidot.com
Re: [twitter-dev] Global twitter profile image URL
I would image that implementing S3 versioning would be pretty easy and would rid your systems of a whole bunch of complexity. http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/4faeb3b66ae2e504/ Abraham On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:51, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: probably more than a single day :P yes - we have thought about it... its low on our priority list right now, however. On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Peter Kieltyka peter.kielt...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, I was wondering if twitter has any plans to offer a global URL to each user's profile pic? This would be very handy for third party apps built on top of Twitter. Grabbing the profile_image_url which links directly to the S3 URL, is susceptible to change and requires a lot of effort on the dev's part to make sure its always up to date and working. Consider something like gravatar.com, but for twitter users. There is the the http://tweetimag.es service, which works great, but for something so close to the infrastructure I feel this type of service should be built and supported by twitter itself. I think tweetimag.es has nailed the API as in: ie. Hopefully something like: http://twimg.com/pkieltyka_m http://twimg.com/pkieltyka_n http://twimg.com/pkieltyka_b http://twimg.com/pkieltyka_o if twitter continue's to use S3, it would be very simple to setup a CNAME for twimg.com that points to an S3 bucket and each reference to a username's profile can be down-cased and append the _SIZE. Simple. Should take about a single day to implement this :) Cheers. Peter -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi -- Abraham Williams | Community Advocate | http://abrah.am Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
[twitter-dev] Global twitter profile image URL
Hey guys, I was wondering if twitter has any plans to offer a global URL to each user's profile pic? This would be very handy for third party apps built on top of Twitter. Grabbing the profile_image_url which links directly to the S3 URL, is susceptible to change and requires a lot of effort on the dev's part to make sure its always up to date and working. Consider something like gravatar.com, but for twitter users. There is the the http://tweetimag.es service, which works great, but for something so close to the infrastructure I feel this type of service should be built and supported by twitter itself. I think tweetimag.es has nailed the API as in: ie. Hopefully something like: http://twimg.com/pkieltyka_m http://twimg.com/pkieltyka_n http://twimg.com/pkieltyka_b http://twimg.com/pkieltyka_o if twitter continue's to use S3, it would be very simple to setup a CNAME for twimg.com that points to an S3 bucket and each reference to a username's profile can be down-cased and append the _SIZE. Simple. Should take about a single day to implement this :) Cheers. Peter
Re: [twitter-dev] Global twitter profile image URL
probably more than a single day :P yes - we have thought about it... its low on our priority list right now, however. On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Peter Kieltyka peter.kielt...@gmail.comwrote: Hey guys, I was wondering if twitter has any plans to offer a global URL to each user's profile pic? This would be very handy for third party apps built on top of Twitter. Grabbing the profile_image_url which links directly to the S3 URL, is susceptible to change and requires a lot of effort on the dev's part to make sure its always up to date and working. Consider something like gravatar.com, but for twitter users. There is the the http://tweetimag.es service, which works great, but for something so close to the infrastructure I feel this type of service should be built and supported by twitter itself. I think tweetimag.es has nailed the API as in: ie. Hopefully something like: http://twimg.com/pkieltyka_m http://twimg.com/pkieltyka_n http://twimg.com/pkieltyka_b http://twimg.com/pkieltyka_o if twitter continue's to use S3, it would be very simple to setup a CNAME for twimg.com that points to an S3 bucket and each reference to a username's profile can be down-cased and append the _SIZE. Simple. Should take about a single day to implement this :) Cheers. Peter -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
