Chapter 9
Flaunt Your Feathers with Photos and Videos
In This Chapter
Uploading photos to Twitter in different ways
Exploring your video sharing options on Twitter
Uncovering other media you can share on Twitter
We all love taking pictures — of food, family, and more food. In 2013, more than 500 million photos were uploaded to the Internet daily. Although traditionally these photos have gone to sites like Facebook and Instagram, Twitter is growing as its own unique photo sharing destination.
But rather than displaying just the typical family photos you see on Facebook or the food photos you see on Instagram, Twitter also highlights photos of news stories, industry facts and quotes, interesting events or conferences, and photos that are slightly less personal (which makes sense, given that most people use Twitter publicly). That’s why this chapter is dedicated entirely to what you can do visually on Twitter.
Exploring Your Uploading Options
When you upload photos to Twitter, you have a few options. You can attach an image while tweeting from your desktop or mobile phone, but you can edit that image only through the Twitter mobile app (see the sidebar “Enhance your photos with the ...
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