Gravatars missing from tweets

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

  • Twitter does not pull gravatars.

    The twitter widget just pulls the tweets – not the avatars used with Twitter.

    You can use the Twitter widget code they give you in a text widget.

    Thread Starter krimsly

    (@krimsly)

    Hi Andrea,

    Thanks for your response. I think that all it would take to pull down the user profile avatars is an extra parameter or two added into the existing Twitter API call, then extracting the URL’s to the avatar images from the returned data. I’ve been experimenting by hacking the plugin code and I’ve got back URLs to the avatars.

    But since I didn’t write the plugin it’s going to be pretty difficult to integrate the code changes in a robust way. For example it’s not clear to me how the caching is working in the plugin. I would really like to see the avatars added (with a widget option) by the StudioPress team instead of myself ??

    The Twitter-provided embedded timeline widget has serious drawbacks– namely that it is very difficult to style the widget (for example larger font size or profile avatar images) since the widget loads in an iFrame. The font is so small I can barely read it on my screen.

    Thanks.

    I can pass that on to the team but make no promises.

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)
  • The topic ‘Gravatars missing from tweets’ is closed to new replies.