I put a very quick app together called "Twavatars" that creates a static URL to a profile image. The request does an API call and streams the image from the S3 url. This does make the images load slower but it is only a temporary solution untill there is an official solution. So it is fine when displaying a couple of avatars, if you displaying lots of avatars it will be tediously slow.
My avatar (@ollieparsley) -> http://twavatars.ollieparsley.com/user/10721822?s=thumb or http://twavatars.ollieparsley.com/user/ollieparsley?s=normal http://twavatars.ollieparsley.com for more info if anyone is interested. Ollie On May 22, 2:24 am, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Speaking of static avatar URLs... how about Gravatar[1] support? > > [1]http://en.gravatar.com/ > > > > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 18:14, Doug Williams <d...@twitter.com> wrote: > > Thanks for your patience guys -- we realize the benefits of predictable > > static URLs. It's unfortunately kind of back-burner work but we're getting > > to it. As most of you can tell, the image uploading logic needs a lot of > > love. > > Cheers, > > Doug > > > -- > > > Doug Williams > > Twitter Platform Support > >http://twitter.com/dougw > > > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Tim Haines <tmhai...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> 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 <cts...@gmail.com> 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 <tmhai...@gmail.com> 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. > > -- > Abraham Williams |http://the.hackerconundrum.com > Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham > Project |http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com > This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. > Sent from San Francisco, California, United States
