Optimize your Twitter account by opting for attractive visuals, whether profile photos, cover photos, or other. Indeed, Twitter is a social platform where you can make your mark. Therefore, you must take care of your image. In this text, let's find out together what is the dimension, format and size of banners on Twitter?
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Why must the resizes imposed by the platform be respected?
The sizes of images on social networks are often changed, there is no accuracy, you have to be on the lookout for the latest news so as not to be mistaken. Please note that the dimensions given are recommendations. Indeed, today the networks, especially Twitter, have become flexible on this subject. Moreover, the required standards are only complications for the users.
Twitter also has a Zoom function that corrects problems with image sizes. In short, the standard dimensions are quoted in order to respect the ratios. On the other hand, the number of pixels to use for your images and photos on social networks is important.
What are the image dimensions for Twitter?
Aside from dimensions, Twitter may restrict:
- Size: PNG, JPEG or GIF.
- Max photo size: 3 MB / for GIFs 5 MB.
Here are the suggested dimensions for Twitter images:
Profile photo sizes
- Ratio: 1/1
- Max photo size: 400 by 400 pixels.
- Minimum photo size: 200 pixels per side.
The size of the cover photos
- Dimension : 1500 by 500 pixels (recommend by Twiteer)
- Minimum photo size: 1024 by 280 pixels.
Image size for Tweet
- Ratio: 2/1
- Minimum photo size: 440 by 220 pixels.
- Dimension : 1024 by 510 pixels (recommend by Twiteer)
When you use a banner image within the recommended dimensions, but parts are cropped. The problem surely comes from the display mode of the images according to the size of the screen as well as the browser used.
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