We finaly use Tweetimag.es
Twitter has an amazing API and a great developer ecosystem, but there is one pain point:
avatars are transient. The
profile_image_url
attribute in the
/users/show
endpoint is a direct link to an S3 URL that includes the original file name. This is a problem for a number of reasons.
- If a user uploads a new profile image with a different file name then the previous
profile_image_url
goes dead.
- If your Twitter application stores older tweets and you use that older
profile_image_url
then your icon links are broken.
Many developers have turned to maintaining their own solutions, which is a pain. Other developers might like to use Twitter usernames similar to the way email addresses can be used with Gravatar. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
Solution, Tweetimag.es replace your
<img src="http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/71412989/Picture_4_bigger.png" alt="aplusk" />
with tweetimag.es URL’s and we take care of showing the proper icon.
For example, to show joestump‘s Twitter profile icon you would simply do
<img src="http://img.tweetimag.es/i/joestump_n" alt="joestump" />
in your application’s HTML source.
