Twitter Profile Images
Twitter has been having issues with profile images recently. It turns
out, if you've updated your profile image in the last week (and it was
a big image) it wouldn't be scaled down properly.
image, they get served the *original* massive image, rather than the
small thumbnail which is what they expect. Tweetie currently detects this case (and is particularly anal) because
if it didn't, some images are large enough to eat up all the memory on
the system, causing a crash. Many other twitter clients don't catch
this, and in fact some of them do crash depending on the size of the
image that they're trying to decode. You can track Twitter's progress on the problem here:
http://status.twitter.com/post/90378527/improperly-sized-images Until Twitter fixes it, what users will have to do is scale down their
profile image themselves (to something smaller than 200px x 200px) and
re-upload it to Twitter. Tweetie has a 72 hour cache of profile
images, it should automatically update after that amount of time. You
can always delete and re-install Tweetie to clear the caches manually
(you won't be charged a second time for downloading it).
