I'd also urge Twitter to fix all oversized Avatars including those from the  issue
#601 . It's a real pain for all mobile clients.

Can you imagine what downloading a couple of megabytes means for people without a
flatrate plan?

Please consider rescaling all oversized avatars. Please.

3rd party developers are really at the mercy of Twitter with this one. I hope they
will see the reasoning and the good that they will be doing to help the 3rd party
developers (and for themselves) by properly addressing this issue.

Attached is a screen shot showing just 3 comments (of many) that I compiled from
Tweetie 2's comments on the App Store.

Note that I am not associated to the developer, but I thought it might be helpful for
you to see what users opinions are on the most popular of the clients.

Note how each user unfairly blames the developer (atebits), but how should users
really know? I don't blame users for seeing it this way.

This issue seems simple enough to correct. But it's devastating to developers. I feel
that the responsible thing to do is correct these images and do to do your best not
to let the issue happen again. Although, as developers we're all understanding how
regression can occur.

I don't want to be thought of as ranting so I hope this to be my last word on the
subject.

@TwitterAPI Please just have a look at the screen shot, and look at this issue from a
developers perspective. As you are likely aware developers are unable to respond to
user comments on the app store.

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I also believe this should be fixed, please realize that even the twitter.com page 
takes a loong time to load. If it will be up to users to reupload their images then 
at least post something to urge them to do so or something... Inaction is not a 
proper solution.

This is a dupe of 601 http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=601
The official response seems to be "It's fixed for new images, email us any which are
too large."

You can use http://tweetimag.es/ until the problem is fixed.  I'm not affiliated with
the site - but like that they can size the avatars correctly.

@terence.eden

Unfortunately this doesn't appear to work with the larger sized images, at least in
the test I just did.

See http://twitter.com/Jahia where the users avatar "thumbnail" is 3000px × 3000px
(scaled to 48px × 48px).

The request from tweetimag.es should be the following but notice how only Jahia_o
works (it is the original 3000px × 3000px image).

http://img.tweetimag.es/i/Jahia_m (returns no image) 
http://img.tweetimag.es/i/Jahia_n (returns no image supposed to be 48x48)
http://img.tweetimag.es/i/Jahia_b (returns no image)
http://img.tweetimag.es/i/Jahia_o (original size - works)

this problem has been addressed for newly updated avatars.  we are planning a fix that will handle avatars that 
have already bee updated, but we do not yet have a timeline for when that fix will be deployed.

@Raffi I'm glad that Twitter is doing the right thing here. I hope that the fix will
be deployed in the near future but it's at least better to know now that Twitter is
committed to addressing the issue of the affected avatars.

Thanks.

yeah - definitely - as you can imagine, this is not an easy fix, and its subtle to get it completely correct.  i'll keep 
people updated.

Thanks @Raffi on behalf of all of the 3rd party developers we're glad you guys are
addressing this issue.

I do I understand it's not an easy fix as I imagine there are a lot of images to
process. Hopefully (presumably) you will implement some automation to fix the images,
but I'm sure it will be resource hungry and still need to be executed very thoughtfully.

I'm crossing my fingers that the planned maintenance window at 11PM PST might be in
order to address this as well as other issues.

Cheers.

unfortunately no - the maintenance window has nothing to do with the fix for this issue.  the good news, 
however, is that this fix will probably not require a maintenance window.  i'll keep you all updated.

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