https://thenextweb.com/twitter/2019/12/13/twitter-will-stop-compressing-the-hell-out-of-your-photos-from-now-on/ > Twitter is an addictive site, and I spend way too much time on it. One of my major gripes about Twitter has to do with the way it handles media uploads. Your photos and videos lose a ton of details and quality when you share them on the social network – a result of compression to make this content load faster on web and mobile devices. > The company is finally changing that. Going forward, the site will preserve the quality of your photos in JPEG format. Nolan O’Brien, a software engineer working at Twitter, revealed the updated functionality.