What size should social media posts be ?

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What size should social media posts be ?

Can someone please explain to me how social media plateforms handle image dimensions? Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook in particular.

I get the standard sizes for Facebook and Instagram, 1200×627 for Facebook and 1080×1080 for a square Instagram image (or 1200 x 630 according to some sources). I’m very confused by Twitter, depending on the sources, an in-stream image should be 1600×900 pixels in size, while others recommend 1200×675 pixels and 1024×512 pixels.

Also, if the platforms instantly resize the images as they are uploaded, what’s the point ?

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Ranime Selected answer as best January 23, 2023
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Hello Jesse, here are the standard sizes for feed/timeline posts (up to date) :

1- Facebook :

  • Post (timeline or newsfeed) : 1200 x 630 px
  • Story : 1080 x 1920 px

2- Instagram :

  •  Post (square) : 1080 x 1080 px
  • Post (portrait) : 1080 x 1350 px (4:5)
  • Story : 1080 x 1920 px

3- Twitter :

  • Tweet with shared link : 1200 x 1628 px
  • Tweet sharing a single image : 1200 x 1675 px
  • Tweet sharing two images : 700 x 800 px
  • Tweet sharing three images : 700 x 800 px (left)/ 1200 x 686 px (right)
  • Tweet sharing four images : 1200 x 600 px

We hope this will be helpful !

Ranime Edited answer January 23, 2023
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