Twitter Will Finally Stop Making Your Images Look Terrible

At last, the end of sketchy compression

Eric Ravenscraft
OneZero
Published in
3 min readDec 13, 2019

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Credit: Eric Ravenscraft

SSocial media is ruining the internet, but not in the way you think. (Okay, not solely in the way you think.) Every time an image is uploaded to Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, it gets compressed, degrading its overall quality. If an image is downloaded and re-uploaded — which happens constantly to…

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Eric Ravenscraft
OneZero

Eric Ravenscraft is a freelance writer from Atlanta covering tech, media, and geek culture for Medium, The New York Times, and more.