Re: [twitter-dev] statuses/show.json: profile_background_image_url erroneously populated for users with the background image disabled.
There are two related issues: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1183 http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1183 http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1211 http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1211Abraham On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 14:03, James Wheare ja...@wheare.org wrote: In results from statuses/show.json, the user data returned sometimes contains a 'profile_background_image_url' for users that have chosen to turn off the background image on their profile. I've made an app that attempts to mimic the user's profile design as closely as possible and this is causing acute ugliness in some cases. e.g. http://www.exquisitetweets.com/tweets?ids=10795543407.10795729981.10796641044.10797050988.10797098108.10796710716.10797057786.10797742374 You'll notice that tweets from the user ru show the default theme's cloudy background, while on his profile the background image is hidden: http://twitter.com/ru It would be great if the API could either return an empty profile_background_image_url field in this case or provide an extra profile_background_image_hidden boolean field to indicate whether they've chosen to hide the image in their design settings. Thanks. - James -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en -- Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am @abraham | http://projects.abrah.am | http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
Re: [twitter-dev] statuses/show.json: profile_background_image_url erroneously populated for users with the background image disabled.
Yeah, this is a sticky one. I have a branch to fix some of the issues around this, but getting it right may take some doing. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: There are two related issues: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1183 http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1211 Abraham On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 14:03, James Wheare ja...@wheare.org wrote: In results from statuses/show.json, the user data returned sometimes contains a 'profile_background_image_url' for users that have chosen to turn off the background image on their profile. I've made an app that attempts to mimic the user's profile design as closely as possible and this is causing acute ugliness in some cases. e.g. http://www.exquisitetweets.com/tweets?ids=10795543407.10795729981.10796641044.10797050988.10797098108.10796710716.10797057786.10797742374 You'll notice that tweets from the user ru show the default theme's cloudy background, while on his profile the background image is hidden: http://twitter.com/ru It would be great if the API could either return an empty profile_background_image_url field in this case or provide an extra profile_background_image_hidden boolean field to indicate whether they've chosen to hide the image in their design settings. Thanks. - James -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en -- Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am @abraham | http://projects.abrah.am | http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
