Resizing Images For Twitter

I am basically bumping this up because I think it is worthy of discussing.

For Facebook and if I do post an image I downsize to 800 x 600 and ad a watermark. I rarely add an image to twitter but do add a link to said image.

I do 800x800 (800 pixels on the largest size)... seems to work well..

900px on the longest side and sharpened up to combat some of the compression you get on those sites.

This should answer all your questions: http://postcron.com/en/blog/social-media-image-dimensions-sizes/

Thanks Aged Pixel. That article is helpful although not totally clear. For example, I don't get the part about uploading via "pic.twitter.com". What's that about?

Twitter has a help section explaining how to post a photo. https://support.twitter.com/articles/20156423-posting-photos-on-twitter

Hope it helps. :)

I'd been using bufferapp.com to post tweets. I guess what that Help section is saying is that if you're posting photos it's better to do it directly on twitter's site.

I can't comment on bufferapp.com since I never used their services.

I use Hootsuite which does allow you to post photos and uploads to all social networks you have an account with.
Sign up for hootsuite, setup your accounts, create a post, insert a photo and they will do the rest.

If you check the box to post to Twitter when uploading a new image, an image about 500 pixels is posted. I click on that and copy the link and then put it in a database of tweets for later use. I use Puzzleflip to send those out. The images look good that way in my opinion. I used to upload smaller versions, but those don't look as good as the ones generated with the upload process.

Greg,

You hit the nail on the head. I want the embedded link back to FAA for the sales sheets.

FAA is using smaller images.

Twitter is migrating to cards. The cards will offer a greater number and versatility of embedded links.

When Sean gets a chance, I am hoping he tackles Twitter Cards.

Dave