POST account/update_profile
POST account/update_profile
Sets some values that users are able to set under the "Account" tab of their settings page. Only the parameters specified will be updated.
Resource URL¶
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/account/update_profile.json
Resource Information¶
| Response formats | JSON |
| Requires authentication? | Yes (user context only) |
| Rate limited? | Yes |
Parameters¶
| Name | Required | Description | Default Value | Example |
| name | optional | Full name associated with the profile. | Marcel Molina | |
| url | optional | URL associated with the profile. Will be prepended with
http:// if not present. |
http://project.ioni.st |
|
| location | optional | The city or country describing where the user of the account is located. The contents are not normalized or geocoded in any way. | San Francisco CA | |
| description | optional | A description of the user owning the account. | Flipped my wig at age 22 and it never grew back. Also: I work at Twitter. | |
| include_entities | optional | The entities node will not be included when set to false . | false | |
| skip_status | optional | When set to either true , t or 1 statuses will not be included in the returned user object. |
Example Request¶
POST https://api.twitter.com/1.1/account/update_profile.json?name=Sean%20Cook&description=Keep%20calm%20and%20rock%20on.
Example Response¶
{
"contributors_enabled": false,
"created_at": "Thu Aug 23 19:45:07 +0000 2012",
"default_profile": false,
"default_profile_image": false,
"description": "Keep calm and rock on.",
"favourites_count": 0,
"follow_request_sent": false,
"followers_count": 0,
"following": false,
"friends_count": 10,
"geo_enabled": true,
"id": 776627022,
"id_str": "776627022",
"is_translator": false,
"lang": "en",
"listed_count": 0,
"location": "San Francisco, CA",
"name": "Sean Cook",
"notifications": false,
"profile_background_color": "9AE4E8",
"profile_background_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/images/themes/theme16/bg.gif",
"profile_background_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/images/themes/theme16/bg.gif",
"profile_background_tile": false,
"profile_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/2550256790/hv5rtkvistn50nvcuydl_normal.jpeg",
"profile_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/2550256790/hv5rtkvistn50nvcuydl_normal.jpeg",
"profile_sidebar_border_color": "BDDCAD",
"profile_sidebar_fill_color": "DDFFCC",
"profile_text_color": "333333",
"profile_use_background_image": true,
"protected": false,
"screen_name": "s0c1alm3dia",
"show_all_inline_media": false,
"statuses_count": 0,
"time_zone": "Pacific Time (US & Canada)",
"url": "http://cnn.com",
"utc_offset": -28800,
"verified": false
}