Shannon, We have decided not to proceed with static URLs. Please see the recent thread on the image host change for more information.
Thanks, Doug On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Shannon Whitley <[email protected] > wrote: > > I recall seeing a post from a Twitter employee that static profile > image urls would be delivered sometime in June 2009. Do we have any > updates? Thanks. > > > > On May 21, 6:14 pm, Doug Williams <[email protected]> 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 Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw > > > > > > > > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Tim Haines <[email protected]> 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 <[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.- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - >
