Can I Tweet A Video

Video izlerken bazen zamanımız daha değerli oluyor veya kendi adıma çok yavaş konuşan kişilerin yer aldığı videoları izlemek adeta işkenceye dönüşüyor. Böyle durumlarda, videoyu eğer YouTube'dan izliyorsam genelde hızlandırma özelliğini açıyorum, ama eğer Twitter'da karşıma çıkan bir videoya göz atıyorsam elim kolum bağlı bir şekilde ekran karşısında izlemek durumunda kalıyorum. Neyse ki Twitter, yaptığı açıklamada bunun değişmek üzere olduğunu belirtti.

Twitter Support hesabının yaptığı paylaşıma göre sosyal medya platformunda izlediğimiz videoları artık, x'ten x'e kadar farklı hızlarda izleyebilme imkanına sahip olacağız. Şu anda bu özellik beta sürecinde ve her kullanıcı için açık değil. Testte olanlar ise farklı hız seçeneklerine erişmek için tıklayabilecekleri veya bir video izlerken üzerine dokunabilecekleri küçük bir donanım görecekler. Buradan da videonun hızını ayarlamak mümkün olacak. 

Özellik şu anda sadece web ve Android kullanıcıları tarafından test edilebiliyor. Twitter sözcüsü Joseph Nuñez'e göre, kullanıcılar platformlarına bağlı olarak tweet videoları, sesli tweet'ler, özel sohbetlerdeki videolar ve canlı video tekrarları için oynatma hızını seçebilecekler. Joseph Nuñez ayrıca Twitter'ın gelecekte testi iOS kullanıcıları için aktif edeceklerini de söylüyor.

Özelliği denemek için web ve Android'de Twitter'ı açtığımda henüz test kullanıcılarından biri olmadığımı görüyor ve dolayısıyla video hızlandırmayı da deneyemiyorum. 

Twitter'ın ayrıca, kullanıcıların daha uzun metinli tweetler göndermesine izin verebilecek yeni bir özellik üzerinde çalıştığı da belirtiliyor. Uzmanlara göre şirket, kullanıcıların platformda mevcut karakterlik sınırı aşan gönderiler yazmasına izin verebilecek. Bu konudaki detayları da merakla bekliyoruz. 

Twitpic not only stores your images, it also stashes away other data, such as your location when you took the picture (if you entered it or are using a smartphone to snap your shots, which often adds your location automatically using GPS). When you delete a photograph, it's "no longer viewable" according to Twitpic's terms of service, which doesn't necessarily mean that it no longer exists on the server.

Although Twitpic can be used just to store images, it's more about immediacy than posterity and capturing a moment in time -- much like Twitter itself. Many users employ Twitpic to Tweet images of great meals they've just eaten, a person they just met, something that they just bought or are thinking about buying. Another way to take advantage of Twitpic when you're on the go is to quickly share and save images; later on, when you have the time, you can pick and choose what you want to keep long term.

One interesting way to share your pictures via Twitpic is to link them with an event. On Twitter, events are real-time interactions between users about a topic that last for a specific amount of time. Usually, there's a host or an organizer asking questions and seeking feedback. There's an assigned hashtag so that anybody participating in the event (also known as a Twitter chat or party) can easily follow the participants' Tweets. When uploading a picture from Twitpic's site, you have the option (in the second step) to create an event, including the title, description and trigger (which is a hashtag). Once you build and save the event, it's stored in Twitpic; you can choose it from the drop-down menu to add a picture to it.

So-called "citizen journalists" have availed themselves of Twitpic to quickly share photos of important events in real-time, usually before any members of the media arrive on the scene. One recent example of this happened in , when a U.S. Airways plane crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York City. The first image of passengers being rescued from the plane came from a passenger named Janis Krums, who was on a ferry in the river. Krums took a photo with his iPhone, then used Twitpic to upload it to Twitter. Within half an hour of sending the Tweet, Krums was interviewed on TV as a witness to the event.

OK, so now you've got some tricks for using Twitpic up your sleeve -- and ideas for ways to use it -- but maybe you're curious about the technology behind it? On the next page, we'll take a peek under Twitpic's hood.

Twitter went crazy on May 5th, but it wasn't because of Cinco de Mayo or Karl Marx's *checks notes* rd birthday. It was because Twitter removed their infamous image crop rules. Or did they?

Yes and no. They only changed the rules for the Twitter mobile app, and they didn't remove the crop entirely, but replaced their crop rules with much more flexible ones. It's a whole new world for Twitter images, and all of your favorite "open for a surprise" memes and "who does the algorithm recognize?" posts are now defunct.

I'm here to help you figure it all out. Here's everything you need to know about Twitter's new image crop rules:

1. The new max height:
2. The new max width:
3. Tweets with more than one picture
4. How to resize your images for the new crop

1. The New Max Height:

As I mentioned, Twitter didn't remove their auto-cropping altogether, but made the restrictions far looser. Before the change, Twitter cropped all images to , whether they were wider or taller. Now, on mobile only, images as tall as are displayed with no crop.

is the most common aspect ratio for vertical photos taken on a phone, so Twitter's choice makes sense. However, some cameras use or aspect ratios, which will still be cropped on the top and bottom. And since most vertical videos are shot with a aspect ratio (recognizable on platforms like TikTok), screenshots will still be cropped significantly.

2. The New Max Width:

It didn't make as much of a splash, but Twitter's auto-cropping was also loosened for wide pictures, from their default to a slightly wider

Most horizontal photos taken on phones have a aspect ratio to begin with, so it's no surprise that this change hasn't gotten as much attention. But if you like posting panoramas, movie screenshots, or banners, Twitter's new crop rule will help out just a bit.

Twitter allows you to include up to 4 photos in a single tweet, and they're cropped differently depending on how many you add. Unfortunately, Twitter's mobile crop rule update didn't change anything about multi-photo tweets, and their somewhat complex aspect ratio system is the same as it was before. Here's an overview:

4. How to Resize Your Images for the New Crop

If you were used to the old crop rule, you probably figured out the best ways to navigate it. Adding padding to photos to display the whole thing, manipulating the crop for an "open for a surprise" tweet, testing the algorithm's racial bias. But with the new rules, you'll need to crop your photos differently.

I recommend using Kapwing to resize your Twitter pictures for the new crop rules, since it's all online and lets you add padding and resize with pixel precision. Head to monash.pw in your browser and select Start Editing to enter the Kapwing Studio.

In the Studio, drag & drop your image, click Upload, or paste a link to import your picture to the canvas. Find the Output Size buttons on the right side of the Studio and select Custom Size. To resize your canvas to (max Twitter height), I recommend pixels for your width and for your height. Since Twitter now supports images up to 4k, you can enter pixels for your width and for your height, for maximum resolution.

Remember, if your picture is taller than or wider than just drag the corners of your picture to include the entire frame in the or frame, with some padding on the sides or top & bottom.

For max width Twitter images, I recommend entering pixels for your width and for your height. For more HD images, put in the width field and in the height field.

I hope this article brings you fully up to date with Twitter's new sizing guidelines! For more tips and tutorials on creating great content for social media, check out the Kapwing YouTube channel or read through some related articles on Twitter content:

• How to Download Videos from Twitter
• How to Make a Fancam Video for Twitter or Instagram
• How to Repost a TikTok Video on Twitter
• How to Save a GIF from Twitter