Profile image URLs domain changed?

afairb · 2014-01-25T15:11:45.000Z

Hi there,

I’m not sure when this happened - I think a while ago - but it seems that Twitter has switched over from using the http://a0.twimg.com and https://si0.twimg.com domains for profile image URLs (as per https://dev.twitter.com/docs/user-profile-images-and-banners) to using http://pbs.twimg.com and https://pbs.twimg.com.

Obviously assumptions shouldn’t be made that profile images will always be on a particular domain or have a certain URL but I can’t seem to find and announcement or information about this change. Trying to visit images on the older URLs results in a 403 or an “image contains errors” browser message.

Can you confirm that this change has happened for all profile images or offer any more info?

Thanks.

romainhuet · 2014-01-27T16:49:00.000Z

Hello Andrew,

Thank you for your question. You are correct, profile images are now exposed from pbs.twimg.com, which should be seamless and reflected in the profile_image_url and profile_image_url_https exposed by the REST API. We have updated the documentation: [node:10796].

If you encountering any 403 or 404 errors while trying to access profile images, please make sure to update your user objects by calling the [node:10320] endpoint.

Please let us know if you have any other questions or issues.

afairb · 2014-01-27T22:28:01.000Z

Hi Romain. Thanks for getting back to me with an answer and for updating the documentation. Much appreciated!

qudosfatehabadi · 2014-01-28T15:15:14.000Z

i can not sett my profile picture please help me friends.

romainhuet · 2014-01-28T15:16:10.000Z

Please visit https://twitter.com/settings/profile to change your profile picture.