Is image shrinking broken?

[TCI]

I am noticing an increase in the number of avatar images which do not
get shrinked in the smaller versions. It is most noticeable in the
twitter.com homepage as the images load very slowly from top to
bottom. How are your clients handling this? In my case I am assuming
the shrinking is working and therefore my page load times are being
affected.

Example:

http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/506101471/Copy__2__of_Francesca__4__bigger.jpg
http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/506101471/Copy__2__of_Francesca__4__normal.jpg
http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/506101471/Copy__2__of_Francesca__4__mini.jpg

are all the same...

[Michael Steuer]

I have noticed the same recently. This should probably be logged as a bug?
It's a core twitter bug though, not with the API...

[Zac Bowling]

This happened a while back. Probably a regression. Their thumbnail
servers are not working or something.

Zac Bowling

[janole]

Would be cool to have this fixed as soon as possible. I'm getting a
lot of complaints because my mobile client silently discards any
"oversized" avatars ( > 10kB .)

It's not a good idea to download dozens of > 200 kB avatars if you're
not on a flatrate mobile data plan ;-) Also, scaling all those avatars
on the mobile phone takes quite some time ...

@janole

On 3 Nov., 06:25, TCI <ticoconid...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am noticing an increase in the number of avatar images which do not
> get shrinked in the smaller versions. It is most noticeable in the
> twitter.com homepage as the images load very slowly from top to
> bottom. How are your clients handling this? In my case I am assuming
> the shrinking is working and therefore my page load times are being
> affected.
>
> Example:
>

> http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/506101471/Copy__2__of_Francesca__4...http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/506101471/Copy__2__of_Francesca__4...http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/506101471/Copy__2__of_Francesca__4...
>
> are all the same...

[Tim Haines]

It's broken.  Add a star here: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1158

[TCI]

Added my star. If you are also affected add yours...
TCI

On Nov 3, 3:09 am, Tim Haines <tmhai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's broken.  Add a star here:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1158
>

> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:54 PM, janole <s...@mobileways.de> wrote:
>
> > Would be cool to have this fixed as soon as possible. I'm getting a
> > lot of complaints because my mobile client silently discards any
> > "oversized" avatars ( > 10kB .)
>
> > It's not a good idea to download dozens of > 200 kB avatars if you're
> > not on a flatrate mobile data plan ;-) Also, scaling all those avatars
> > on the mobile phone takes quite some time ...
>
> > @janole
>
> > On 3 Nov., 06:25, TCI <ticoconid...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I am noticing an increase in the number of avatar images which do not
> > > get shrinked in the smaller versions. It is most noticeable in the
> > > twitter.com homepage as the images load very slowly from top to
> > > bottom. How are your clients handling this? In my case I am assuming
> > > the shrinking is working and therefore my page load times are being
> > > affected.
>
> > > Example:
>

> >http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/506101471/Copy__2__of_Francesca__4....
> > ..
>
> > > are all the same...

[Zac Bowling]

This is is driving me nuts and breaking my code. Please fix.

Zac Bowling

[Rich]

I've got a nasty feeling this is also why Apple are holding up my
update (it's gone to unexpected extra time for review status). I've
had that before when an app uses too much carrier bandwidth and if
it's pulling a profile photo of a few meg it'll soon be noticed!

On Nov 5, 7:17 am, Zac Bowling <zbowl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is is driving me nuts and breaking my code. Please fix.
>
> Zac Bowling
>

[Marcel Molina]

I've passed this issue along to the team that owns the image resizing
code to see if they have any insights into what the issue might be.

--
Marcel Molina
Twitter Platform Team
http://twitter.com/noradio