this is a known issue. there are several tickets in the twitter ticket list that touch on this.I assume they are working on it inline or after they finalize the move of profile/image hosting change, but I haven't gotten any solid word here or in the ticket system about a fix.
Issue numbers that I'm following regarding this: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=758 http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=682 http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=663 The latter 2 are labeled as fixed but users (myself included) have commented that they don't seem to be +Clint On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Rudifa <rudi.far...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello all > > Today I changed my profile image (several times) via twitter web page, > Settings - Picture > > The changed picture appeared immediately in the web pages (That's a > nice picture ...), and the new url can be seen with the browser's Copy > Image Location : > > http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/311858510/me-bsp-6a_normal.png > > > However, subsequent users/show queries (from curl or from browser > address bar) return > responses that contain old urls - not the same one either : > > > curl http://twitter.com/users/show/rudifa.json > > http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/198907870/Snapshot_of_me_1_normal.png > > curl http://twitter.com/users/show/rudifa.xml > > http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/311647072/Snapshot_of_me_1_normal.png > > > Is this a known problem ? > Does the twitter server perform some kind of caching that would > explain this ? > > > Any ideas for getting immediately an up-to-date response from twitter > server would be appreciated. > > > Rudi > >
