How To Fix Broken Twitter Profile Pics In Your App

If you work on 3rd-party tools built over Twitter’s API and have noticed a problem with the URLs of updated profile pics, tweetimages now offers a solution to the problem. According to the tweetimages website, the problem lies in the in the profile_image_url attribute of a user’s profile because it links to an Amazon S3 URL, which changes if a user updates their Twitter profile image. While the Twitter website itself handles any profile pic updates, 3rd-party tools sometimes retain older pic URLs.

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