Twitter now preserves JPEG quality for photo uploads
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Twitter today announced that it will preserve the quality of JPEGs as they are encoded for upload on Twitter for Web. For example, check out the photo uploaded in the below tweet.
Starting today, Twitter will preserve JPEGs as they are encoded for upload on Twitter for Web. (Caveat, cannot have EXIF orientation)
For example: the attached photo is actually a guetzli encoded JPEG at 97% quality with no chroma subsampling.https://t.co/1u37vTopkY pic.twitter.com/Eyq67nfM0E
— Nolan O’Brien (@NolanOBrien) December 11, 2019
With this change, Twitter will allow you to upload 8 megapixel photos up to 16 megapixels without loss in quality. Twitter mentioned that preview images will continue to be compressed to save size and download latency. Twitter is also planning to bring similar improvements to images in Avatars and others next year. Even though the quality of the photo will be maintained with this change, Twitter will remove the metadata of the uploaded photo as usual.
Source: Twitter
