Twitter image-compression preventer
drop image here~
(NEW: or try pasting an image!)
what is this?
Display the fixed image
instead of saving it?
(So you can drag it from here
into twitter's window)
instead of saving it?
(So you can drag it from here
into twitter's window)
Note: TweetDeck doesn't support this mode :(
Twitter recently made it so that any tweeted image gets a ton of ugly JPEG compression added to it... except in certain cases!
The exception is, if you upload a picture with transparency in it, Twitter will store it as a PNG instead of a JPEG in order to preserve that transparency... which incidentally means that it won't be able to JPEG-compress it!
To that end, this app takes any image you drop on it, and gives it back to you as a PNG with one pixel at 99% opacity, which is enough for Twitter to consider it "a transparent image" (while making basically no visible difference to the picture). Then you can post that 'twitter-safe' copy onto twitter and spare yourself the compression!
Note that this app does not transmit anything to any servers -- the conversion happens completely in your web browser; the image never leaves your computer. (Until you then go and stick it on twitter afterwards, I mean. :P)
cool, thanks!