Facebook Changing Maximum Size of Photos, Profile Pictures
Facebook’s Platform team has just posted a note about a couple of potentially breaking upcoming changes to the way Facebook handles user photos and profile pictures. Here’s the upshot for developers:
1) Increased Maximum Photo Size Coming Tomorrow
Starting tomorrow, Wednesday, January 20, Facebook is increasing the maximum size of photos to 720 pixels from 604. Facebook says it is releasing this feature to a small number of users at first, but will be rolling it out to everyone over the “next three weeks.” Developers using the photo FQL table or photos.get to return the src_big image will need to update their apps.
2) Decreased Profile Picture Size Coming Soon
Facebook also says it is changing the maximum size of profiles pictures to 180 x 540 (down from 200 x 600) “in the next few weeks.” You may need to change your apps if you are getting the pic_big image from the user FQL table or users.getInfo, or are rendering the normal profile picture with fb:profile-pic, according to Facebook.
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June 13th, 2010 at 6:58 pm
Thanks for sharing, very useful information! Much appreciated..
December 25th, 2010 at 9:01 am
It doeasn’t work!
It say that I should change the larger of the picture!
February 14th, 2011 at 2:23 am
Hi!
Useful informations
Thanks
February 16th, 2011 at 8:22 am
Thanks for the info. But the page profile image is losing clarity after uploading.