I've asked the operation's teams to leave the old S3 hosted images available for 2 weeks after the deploy. This should give you time to update your caches.
Cheers, Doug On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Hayes Davis <ha...@appozite.com> wrote: > Are you going to shut off the S3 URLs immediately or will they still be > accessible for a time? I understand that newly updated avatar images would > not be updated at S3 after the switch but I'd like to know when we can > expect any S3 URLs we may have in our caches to all go dark. > > Thanks. > > Hayes > > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Clint Shryock <cts...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm still having issues with the profile_image_url attribute of users/show >> updating in a timely fashion, any chance this issue be resolved with this >> update? >> +Clint >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Doug Williams <d...@twitter.com> wrote: >> >>> Andrew Stone asked a great question off list and I wanted to share the >>> answer here. >>> >>> Images will be hosted from a number of sub-domains of twimg.com. >>> Therefore you should not expect all images to be served from >>> a0.twimg.com as in the examples provided, but instead should expect an >>> aribitrary sub-domain (*.twimg.com). >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Doug >>> >>> >>> On Jul 8, 2009, at 6:20 PM, Doug Williams <d...@twitter.com> wrote: >>> >>> Folks -- >>> We are going to be moving images to a new domain ( <http://twimg.com> >>> twimg.com) to streamline our image hosting and offer better performance. >>> We hope this will have limited impact as will only change the image URL. >>> Example URLs include: >>> >>> Profile images: >>> >>> >>> <http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/35240332/2929920.gif> >>> http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/35240332/2929920.gif >>> >>> <http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/35240332/2929920.gif> >>> http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/35240332/2929920.gif >>> Background images: >>> >>> >>> <http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_background_images/18156348/jessica_tiled.jpg.jpeg>http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_background_images/18156348/jessica_tiled.jpg.jpeg >>> >>> >>> <http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/18156348/jessica_tiled.jpg.jpeg>http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/18156348/jessica_tiled.jpg.jpeg >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Doug >>> >>> >>> >> >
