2009/1/7 Patrick Minton <[email protected]>: > Yes, but once you have the url, why store the actual .png locally? > Sure, if a user changes their profile image you may have a broken link, but > you can update profile info every hour or so, thus making it a non-issue.
I don't think Twitter would see it as a non-issue if your service has more than a few users and you start requesting their details every hour. A better option is to attempt to download their avatar and only request their profile and update it if you get a 404. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/
