Hi Clint, Thanks for that. I've added myself to the watchlist. I saw a similar note from 2007, so was hoping it was already done - but 'a month or so' sounds good to me.
Tim. On May 21, 10:24 pm, Clint Shryock <[email protected]> wrote: > the API team is in the process of re-engineering this functionality: in the > future the current profile image will have a static > URL.see:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=497#c8 > > +Clint > > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Tim Haines <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey there, > > > I'm caching profile image urls. I'm finding quite a bit of churn, and > > have started wondering how I'm going to keep them up to date. > > > Is there anyway to predict or determine a profile image url from a > > screen name or something? The url's provided all seem to contain part > > of the original file name - which of course is impossible to guess. > > > If there's not a way to determine them from the screen name, is there > > an easy way to get a bulk update of the image urls? > > > Cheers, > > > Tim. > >
