Hi, on a related note: What's the typical typical period of time for the search system to acknowledge avatar changes? About two days ago, I changed the avatar for @gooseapps from the web (using Camino on Mac OS X 10.5, if that makes any difference), and both twitter.com and the API started returning the new profile image URL right away.
The search system (via JSON) still returns the old profile image URL, however, leaving me with no avatar at all, because that old URL now points to nowhere. I wonder if this is a general feature of the search system, because the avatar file in question certainly isn't special (PNG, no alpha channel, ASCII-only file name). I could, of course, get the correct avatar with an API call in these cases, but that would mean nibbling off of the 100 connections per hour limit, so I'd obviously rather not do that. Thanks! Cheers, Peter. On 9 Feb., 18:39, Matt Sanford <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I think Cameron was asking since knowing if it changed or not, > and if that change was via the API or web will help find the error. > Since this seems like a bug from the description please open an issue > athttp://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issuesfor it. Please include > how the image was updated so I can fix it quicker. > > Thanks; > — Matt Sanford / @mzsanford > > On Feb 9, 2009, at 08:40 AM, CodeWarden wrote: > > > > > Whether they did or didn't change it, the one that the twitter API is > > returning is the one that doesn't work. If they changed it, you would > > think that the one returned by the API would be the correct one, and > > perhaps the one accessed through the twitter web site might get > > cached. > > > -Paul > > > On Feb 8, 12:14 am, Cameron Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Take a look at @SuperGeeks. The URL for the avatar image > >>> returned by > >>> the API (xml or json), gets a 404 when you try to retrieve it. > > >>> That same user has a different Avatar URL when looking at my > >>> timeline > >>> from the twitter web site, still goes to amazon but different URL... > > >> Did they recently change their avatar? This might be a caching > >> interaction. > > >> -- > >> ------------------------------------ > >> personal:http://www.cameronkaiser.com/-- > >> Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *www.floodgap.com* > >> [email protected] > >> -- Friends don't let friends use Windows. > >> -------------------------------------
