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Gravatar Support?
It's a real pain in the neck to update my avatars on all of the different sites I use, so the growth of Gravatar (Globally Recognised Avatar), has been really awesome. It would be great if Twitter had an option in the Account Settings page to allow me to use my Gravatar instead of uploading an avatar to Twitter.
The pre-built PHP5 class, recently published here, makes it a doddle to integrate; and it would certainly make life tonnes easier for users.
The pre-built PHP5 class, recently published here, makes it a doddle to integrate; and it would certainly make life tonnes easier for users.
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Twitter is fast. That's a lot of the appeal: you can fit it in your day without much of a time commitment.
Revising your avatar is less fast. Gravatar would make it easier and more hassle-free.
Fits right in.
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If Twitter supported Gravatars, it would help encourage other web services to play the integration game, which is good for everyone.
Having every web service exist as an isolated island of data just hurts the end users and stifles innovation.
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I think that's an attitude a lot of large web companies should take; they all share the same goal, of making the user's experience easier and more enjoyable. By embracing other services, especially Gravatar I feel, they would go further to reach this goal.
My real aim is to get Gravatar support for all of the web services I use - Google will certainly be a biggie!
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It's time twitter stopped trying to be an entity on it's own... Embrace other services, integrate and thrive.
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Inappropriate?It's time twitter stopped trying to be an entity on it's own... Embrace other services, integrate and thrive.
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Inappropriate?I think that's an attitude a lot of large web companies should take; they all share the same goal, of making the user's experience easier and more enjoyable. By embracing other services, especially Gravatar I feel, they would go further to reach this goal.
My real aim is to get Gravatar support for all of the web services I use - Google will certainly be a biggie!
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Inappropriate?I think this is a great idea. Most Twitter users love the simplicity of Twitter - 140 characters, no threaded replies, etc, and Gravatar support would just add to the simplicity.
I just wonder if Gravatar would be able to withstand it.
I’m supportive of this suggestion.
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Since the Gravatar acquisition by Automattic almost a year ago the service has been great - partly due to the PHP rewrite, and the better hosting capabilities of the Wordpress.com framework. -
Inappropriate?Great idea! The only place I really use my gravatar is on chris.pirillo.com, but would love to have it on Twitter!
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I wish more places would adopt gravatars. Mainly blogs take use of them — such as chris.pirillo.com — but more and more, I'm noticing web services using the gravatar api. Such other web apps include Seesmic among others. I hope Twitter will support this too!
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Inappropriate?I really hope they support Gravatars in the near future.
I’m hopeful this comes through.
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Inappropriate?Would it be possible for a Twitter employee to let us know whether this idea could be considered?
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Inappropriate?It seems that Twitter guys never answer a request... I've ask several things, by GetSatisfaction or by mail, and I have never had any response...
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Inappropriate?I've sent off an email to Twitter directly, hopefully hear something soon!
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Inappropriate?Just recieved a reply from Ev at Obvious:
"We haven't really thought about adding Gravatar support, but I like the idea. Will think about it."
So perhaps there's light at the end of the tunnel!
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Inappropriate?Yeah, I just discovered gravatar and I'm really liking the idea, so having it on Twitter (and every where) would be awesome. But even if the don't support it directly they could support image URL instead of just file uploads - then you could use the gravatar URL (or weeworld's, or ...)
Then again, how is OpenID going to play into this? I heard OpenID also support profile images!? -
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Inappropriate?If Twitter supported Gravatars, it would help encourage other web services to play the integration game, which is good for everyone.
Having every web service exist as an isolated island of data just hurts the end users and stifles innovation.
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Inappropriate?I hope they add it soon. Does anybody know if GetSatisfaction.com supports it?
I’m happy that others want it as well.
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Doesn't look like it... if they did I wouldn't look like a muffin.
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Inappropriate?Twitter is fast. That's a lot of the appeal: you can fit it in your day without much of a time commitment.
Revising your avatar is less fast. Gravatar would make it easier and more hassle-free.
Fits right in.
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Inappropriate?Very good idea... only just found out about gravatar.... but I love the idea. Already using ping.fm to update my status across all my networks, being able to update my profile pic in the same way would be genius... let's do it!
I’m wanting this idea to take off!
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Inappropriate?Last night (UK) Twitter lost loads of avatars. Yet another reason why we should be using Gravatar. Inspired by this I've knocked up a service that allows you to update your Twitter profile image to be your Gravatar. I've called it GetGravatar.
Until Twitter natively supports Gravatar maybe this service, and the enhancements I plan to make, will be of some use.
http://getgravatar.com
I’m hoping this will be useful
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Inappropriate?Cmon twitter! It can't be that bad an idea to offload your image hosting elsewhere! Might be more reliable too ... A few of those "Following" avatars fail to load more often than not! (well this seems to have changed recently..
I’m happy if Twitter do this!
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