To DU posters of Twitter pics... A helpful trick to share

[Pluvious]

Last edited Thu Sep 28, 2023, 10:10 PM - Edit history (1)

I discovered a handy trick that works nicely, and takes very little effort and time.

Objective: Display an image from Twitter (NOT the tweet itself), and include the original link only.

Here is a demonstration:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218221132

Steps:
1. Right-click on image in tweet (iPad select/hold).
Choose option to open the image in your browser app.
Select/copy the pic’s URL.
Remove the “?” And all characters to its right.
Add to the end: .jpg
You now have a link that will render the picture !

2. In the original tweet, click the icon to select and copy the link of the tweet.
Trim off the tracking characters (the ? And junk to its right)
Add this to your post.

You can see all this in my demo post above.

EDIT: Also see post 6 for rendering a X-based tweet now…

Cheers

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. Thank you for this technique

[hlthe2b]

2. ++

[mahina]

3. Spiffy! Thanks.

I used to read it every morning to see what everyone I was interested in had to say. I quit posting Twitter links here because almost all the feedback was not in favor. Mahalo.

[Cheezoholic]

4. You can also use this procedure to display an image that is embedded a website

Right click copy image address then paste or right click open image in a new tab then copy the URL and paste. It doesn't work on all websites but it does on a lot of them.

[Pluvious]

6. The DU forum code is a bit persnickety when...

… it comes to rendering external images.

Often I see links fail in the preview posting option, and have to remove them.

The forum requires the ending part of the “URI” end in an image suffix, .png, .jpg, etc
(With NO query string - the “?” And stuff after)

I always trim off the query string part for shared Twitter links, as the forum’s rendering will ignore it AND spit it out in an ugly manner.

Oh, also for rendering a tweet, we must swap out “x” for “twitter” in the domain name part.
( so we can use x.com when we RON’T wish to render the tweet )

Whew

[A HERETIC I AM]

5. Seems a lot of people don't use the "Preview" feature

and have a look at their post before they put it up.

If there is extra text or parts of the URL that show up along with the picture, then they are superfluous and can be removed.

I wish folks would do that more often. It makes for a much cleaner look.

[Pluvious]

7. I just posted that too, lol - see more info and tips in post 6 (nt)

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. I've been doing it for years

But thanks anyway.

[lastlib]

10. This post needs to be pinned in the Community Help forum.

It is very helpful, and very clearly presented.

Thanks, Pluvious!

[Pluvious]

11. Thank you friend :)

As an old IT guy, it’s hard for he to just ignore the glaring defects,
Not hold back from sharing the simple solutions lol

[Yonnie3]

12. Thanks, I guess

All this so that you don't share where you got the image from?

I may be old fashioned, but if I post an image from a tweet or the web I feel I need to show where it came from.

[Pluvious]

13. I thought I was pretty clear...

The demonstration page I linked to literally says: “source” with the link from
whence the image came from. Plus I spent the extra time explaining how to
provide the link.

Go in peace

[Yonnie3]

14. Point taken, excuse my attitude,

but others may not be so scrupulous as to give the source. You were.

In any case, the author of the tweet will not get the views, shares, comments and likes which may be important to them and encourage them to do more work.

[usonian]

15. I don't "get" it.

On the computer, I can open the image in a new tab or get its address with a right/control click.

On IOS, the very best I can do (and I’ve tried every command/control/option … key )
Is to “share image” and get its address, for example, in an email draft that I copy and toss.

I’m using an ipad right now with the mystical/magical keyboard and don’t see the option, other than what i mentioned.

I would love to see a “copy image link” option.

Inquiring minds want to know. Even want to know what I’m doing wrong, if I am doing wrong.

TIA

[Pluvious]

17. I think I know what you missed...

Firstly: from a desktop/laptop device, I’ll check it out tomorrow and lyk
(I’m couch surfing on my iPad right now)

Here’s one I just made:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218223937

Steps…

In the Twitter app, I first just tapped/held my finger on the image, I also saw what you described.
BUT, when I tapped/released the image, it went to its own page; displaying just the image rendered without the comments.

THEN when I did the tap/hold I got the expanded menu options, and chose open in Chrome…

Voilà !!

Try that friend 🤓

[usonian]

20. OK, I'll give it a shot soon.

I was referring to pictures in general (I almost never link tweets) so we may be talking about apples and oranges, and I think you can understand my "focus" on pics over tweets.

Appreciate the thread and comments!!

[LeftInTX]

16. Trying

Guess it worked!

Link to tweet

https://x.com/joncoopertweets/status/1695256058376184179

[Swede]

18. HEy it works.

[orthoclad]

19. Thank you!

I won't even lurk on twixxer anymore. Views of ANY tweet monetize the nazi Mux. Advertisers look at the view traffic when they decide to spend money on ads. This will help reduce the money flow to Mux. When we don't have to click on "link to tweet" to see the image, it reduces traffic to the site.

And now Rama Smarmy is floating the idea of putting Mux in office as VP (probably won't work, thank dawg, because of birth certificate issues, I believe).

The bluebird is dead. Please don't feed the Nazis.

[summer_in_TX]

21. Thanks! Very helpful!

Here's my practice attempt.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

22. Thank you

This trick works

[Celerity]

23. I have tried to show people here this for years, and gave up after getting too many nasty replies

the same (worse to be honest) for url trimming on article links, tweets, and pics (for example removing the '?' and all after it for pics and tweets)

[Celerity]

24. you can also use.............

https://imgur.com/upload

and just drag the pic from the tweet (and other pics, not just tweet images) into it, then right click and copy the image url and post that in the DU post

this site

https://postimages.org/

works as well

but sometimes you have to manually change with ending to .jpg on the image url that is yielded from it or it will not display on DU