Twitter has never been a photo-centric social network, like Instagram is. In it it is more common to see links to news, videos or just text with many hashtags so it is very possible that for that reason, those of Jack Dorsey have historically neglected the way in which they show those masterpieces that come to us from time to time.
And it is that if you enter right now in the timeline of your account and look for the message of a profile that you follow and that contains a photograph, you will notice that the framing does not make much sense. Or there are faces cut off, or empty spaces with nothing that attracts attention or, in the best of cases, a forced framing It does not look like it is the one chosen by its author.
This is so because in those cases in which someone uploads a vertical photo to Twitter, the platform not only compresses it and lowers its original quality, but makes a horizontal adjustment to show it that leaves out elements that are important. Both up and down. So only by clicking on it we can access the complete content, as it was uploaded to the social network.
Twitter modifies the format of the images it will preview
The origin of this mess is that there is no one in the company choosing which part of the cropped photo is seen or not, but it is the platform itself that, through a kind of algorithm, decides what to show us and what not. Coming to cases as absurd as the one you can see in the publication that you have just below, where from a kind of empty landscape we happen to see a dog sitting patiently in a boat.
Now testing on Android and iOS: when you Tweet a single image, how the image appears in the Tweet composer is how it will look on the timeline –– bigger and better. pic.twitter.com/izI5S9VRdX
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) March 10, 2021
This publication, precisely, has served Twitter to show what it is working on since it is going to modify the way it displays the images that we upload, in the cases of those messages that only have a photograph attached. If we upload more (two, three or four), then it will create a mosaic with cut-out elements that, in this case, will no longer be so serious because users are used to clicking on them to see them in their correct proportion.
When the new changes are applied, the timeline will adopt a more natural and understandable format, where images captured vertically can be understood just as well, and preview them in all their splendor as horizontals (landscape). As you can see in the screenshot to the right of the message on the social network of the official Twitter account.
At the moment there is no date for the arrival of these changes although from the company they speak of the “next months”. If we add to that the possibility of uploading photos with sizes up to 4K, professional photographers will jump for joy because they will be able to display their work with the highest possible quality and, always, showing their works from the same preview view.
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