Hello, We are in the process of developing a website that uses the Twitter API.
I understand that the Twitter API is capable of retrieving a user's profile photo via: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-users%C2%A0show Other websites that are using the Twitter API are, instead, getting these profile photos from Amazon's S3 storage service ( http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/ ). At current when a Twitter user logs onto our website, it will retrieve his information and store it our local db. At the same time it will also grab the profile photo from <profile_image_url> and store it on our server. In my opinion, this seems more appropriate instead of having the site quer the Twitters API and / or hotlink to Amazon's S3 storage service whenever a user loads a page. Especially, if it has to load several profile photos on every page load, on our site. I could be wrong here. What do you guys think the best approach for this is? Hoping to hear from you soon. Best regards, Chris
