Ricardo,
It's not possible through the API as it stands, and has been brought
up before as a shortcoming. I didn't find any duplicate issues in my
searches. Sounds like an enhancement defect to report: add
http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry

@dougw

On Feb 21, 5:28 pm, Ricardo Sousa <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm working as the developer of a Wordpress plugin that pulls twittar
> avatars into wordpress comments. What it actually does is to pull the
> avatar img each time user comments but the problem is that users
> change the avatar often so we need to make API calls very often.
>
> The default syntax url for Twitter profile images is:
>
> http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/80319404/av...
> (avatars is the name of the image in user computer)
>
> The problem is is that "avatars" change whenever users change avatar
> making it impossible to store the user's avatar url in DB and forcing
> me to do a lot of API calls in order to get the most recent image.
> What i want is to be able to call directly the user profile image
> whitout need to call API first. Any ideas?
>
> My question is if there's another syntax which is independent from the
> image name? Something like:
>
> http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/80319404/bi...
>
> If yes: How can i do that without need to call the API on each page
> load (which is huge and terrible)?
>
> if no: is that planned?

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