OK. I got the point.
Api to get profile_image by "http://api.twitter.com/1/users/
profile_image/USERID.xml" looks perfect.
I will use this statement for DB.
Then, 70 chars would be fine I think.
Like, 50 chars for URL part except USERID + 20 chars for USERID =
varchar 70.

Thanks a lot,
yama


On 5月13日, 午前12:16, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com>
wrote:
> With something volatile like a URL you shouldn't make any assumptions about
> its length,  -- and in this case, nor should you try to derive any meaning
> out of the various components of the URL path. There is technically no
> maximum length to a URL, so for storage purposes I would reserve yourself
> plenty of characters.
>
> Speculation: the numeric portion of the path appears to be epoch time in
> seconds, equivalent of: "Sun May 02 16:17:07 -0700 2010 "
>
> We do offer an API method to determine the avatar for a user by user_id,
> however you cannot use them to directly render the image -- only to resolve
> a user_id to a avatar URL string. 
> Seehttp://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/profile_image/:screen_name
>
> @episod <http://twitter.com/episod> - Taylor Singletary
>
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> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 3:48 AM, yama <eternalsun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
>
> > I'm going to store profile image URL to DB.
> > This is my image.
> > "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1272842227/android-
> > wallpaper4_2560x1600.png"
> > But, what is the max length of it?
> > and what does the number,  1272842227 mean?
>
> > Also if possible, I'd like to get profile image by userID,
> > like, on facebook i can get image by "http://graph.facebook.com/USERID/
> > picture".
> > Is it possible on Twitter also?
>
> > Thank you,
> > Yama
>
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