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Using Tweetimag.es to display custom Twitter avatars in Sprout

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Joe Stump, a former Digg PHP developer, is now doing side projects and came out with a service on top of the twitter API called Tweetimag.es.  This service makes it easier to pull Twitter profile images and in a way that prevents the image from breaking when a user changes their profile image.  It also makes it easier to pull multiple sizes of the profile images.  This got me thinking…how can we use this in Sprout Builder so that users can create custom Twitter sprouts with more flexibility.   After pinging some of the Sprout developers, there was a simple solution that made this possible.

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