Poor video quality on the Twitter platform has long been a source of frustration for users. However, the company has shared some promising news regarding videos uploaded through the service, which now appear less pixelated for a better viewing experience. The platform has removed a preprocessing step for videos during upload. The company explained that this removed step used to divide videos into smaller parts for playback, which could reduce quality due to additional processing.
App researcher Jane Manchun Wong uploaded a video aimed at testing the proposed improvements. While it appears better, the platform mentioned that the announced changes are not yet supported in Twitter Media Studio, which Wong used to upload the video. If you want to see a video that the platform claims uses improved video quality, check out the video in Wong's reply. This second video seems to have improved somewhat, but it's hard to gauge the extent, considering the background is predominantly black.
Clearly, neither video is as clear as high-quality videos you might watch on Twitch or YouTube. This upgrade only applies to newly uploaded videos, so older videos won’t see improvements. Nonetheless, it is promising to see the platform making efforts to enhance video experiences. The upgrades may expand previous video quality, as Wong's research earlier this week suggested that Twitter is also working on video playback speed options.
**New Videos Are Less Pixelated**
There have been no changes to the technical specifications, and the current video upload specs on the platform remain as follows:
- Minimum resolution: 32×32 pixels.
- Maximum resolution: 1920×1200 pixels and 1200×1900 pixels.
- Aspect ratios: between 1:2.39 and 2.39:1.
- Maximum frame rate: 40 frames per second.
- Maximum bit rate: 25 megabits per second.
For video ads, the platform recommends a resolution of 1200×1200 pixels for a 1:1 aspect ratio. It also recommends using a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels for a 9:16 aspect ratio. Larger videos are better optimized when users click to expand them.
