probably more than a single day :P yes - we have thought about it... its low on our priority list right now, however.
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Peter Kieltyka <peter.kielt...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hey guys, > > I was wondering if twitter has any plans to offer a global URL to each > user's profile pic? This would be very handy for third party apps > built on top of Twitter. Grabbing the profile_image_url which links > directly to the S3 URL, is susceptible to change and requires a lot of > effort on the dev's part to make sure its always up to date and > working. > > Consider something like gravatar.com, but for twitter users. There is > the the http://tweetimag.es service, which works great, but for > something so close to the infrastructure I feel this type of service > should be built and supported by twitter itself. > > I think tweetimag.es has nailed the API as in: > > ie. Hopefully something like: > > http://twimg.com/pkieltyka_m > http://twimg.com/pkieltyka_n > http://twimg.com/pkieltyka_b > http://twimg.com/pkieltyka_o > > if twitter continue's to use S3, it would be very simple to setup a > CNAME for twimg.com that points to an S3 bucket and each reference to > a username's profile can be down-cased and append the _SIZE. Simple. > > Should take about a single day to implement this :) > > Cheers. > > Peter > -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
