Twitter has increased image sizes, increasing the resolution fourfold from about 4 megapixels previously to 16 megapixels, enabling users to enlarge images better if the screen is large enough to take advantage of possible new details.
Twitter previously reduced the quality of the photos to save space, but this is about to change starting Thursday, as Twitter programmer Nolan O'Brien announced the change in the tweet series, and the change applies to images downloaded from the web version of Twitter only.
"People watch and interact more with tweets that contain audio, video and photos, and the new accuracy means that people can do all of this without having to sacrifice the quality of what they share," Twitter said in a statement.
The change in image resolution may seem a slight improvement, but it may be important, as the user may ignore many low-resolution images, and each pixel can be counted when you want to dive into a beautiful landscape, or examine a leaked product image to try to see if it is real Fake mother.
In 2020, Twitter will also increase the size of profile photos, which today is limited to 400 x 400 pixels.
Starting today, Twitter will preserve JPEGs as they are encoded for upload on Twitter for Web. (Caveat, cannot have EXIF orientation) |
O'Brien started his tweet series with a resolution of 1200 x 800 pixels for red autumn leaves, and said, "Although this size was possible earlier, Twitter now maintains details that could have changed before."
And the process of converting things like previewing images to lower quality will continue to reduce file sizes and delays, which means the user needs to expand the image or open it in a new tab or window to see it in full quality.
And there are still limits, as O'Brien explained that the images are not unlimited in file size or resolution, but that the limits are wide enough that Twitter will not change most of the 8-megapixel photos, and if the shot is square, 16-megapixels can be reached.