Twitter promises better quality for new video downloads

Twitter says that your new videos uploaded will appear less pixelated and be of higher quality. Twitter’s official support account revealed that the website has made updates to correct the poor video quality of its platform, which has been a problem for its users from the start. Twitter said The edge that it removed a preprocessing step when you upload videos that are responsible for the problem. This step apparently splits the clip you’re trying to download into smaller chunks for easier processing, which might reduce the quality of the video.

The company told the post that the changes aren’t live on Twitter Media Studio, a tool that gives you access to any media you’ve already uploaded. Also, while the improved video quality should be available to everyone, it will only apply to new video uploads and will not be applied retroactively to old ones. Here is an example of a new upload that is supposed to be of better quality:

While some people said they barely noticed a difference from before, others remark less compression in full screen and faster adjustment when changing screen size. The quality still doesn’t compare to HD videos posted on YouTube, but it looks pretty decent. In 2019, Twitter also changed the way it downloads JPEG files to avoid reducing their quality when posting.