Another option would be to run your avatar comparison checks through
the search API instead of the general API. It's still an API hit, but
I believe hits to the search API are not counted against your
authenticated standard API limits.

On Feb 23, 10:06 am, Shannon Whitley <[email protected]>
wrote:
> You may want to look at the SPIURL project:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/spiurl/
>
> It provides static urls for each Twitter profile image.
>
> On Feb 22, 8:43 am, dougw <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I take that back, Ricardo. I looks like this has already been
> > officially requested.
>
> > Be sure to star it if you want to add your vote.
>
> >http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=242
>
> > @dougw
>
> > On Feb 21, 11:12 pm, dougw <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > 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: 
> > > addhttp://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?- Hide quoted text -
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> > - Show quoted text -

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