This is not an enhancement that would likely be made to the API itself. Have you thought about making this as an application that other developers could use? All of this functionality could be contained within a third-party app.
Thanks, Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:39 AM, DaveK <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just kind of thinking aloud here. > > I was thinking about the bandwidth overhead for applications which use > the API to set avatar or profile background images and had an idea. > > How about allowing an application to register an uploaded image with > some sort of id or handle and then be able to set the avatar or > background image to that id? > > e.g. > app foobar uploads an image and registers it as "bg1" > it can then make calls to update several accounts and set the profile > background image to "foobar:bg1" or similar. >
