Twitter Media Upload Limits

The main information you will need to know for uploading media for Twitter via Orlo is below, all of which is taken from Twitter’s API documentation, which you can find here

For Images, Orlo supports the following formats:

  • JPEG

  • PNG

  • GIF

Some caveats:

  1. Image size <= 5 MB

For GIFs:

  • Resolution should be <= 1280x1080 (width x height)

  • Number of frames <= 350

  • Number of pixels (width * height * num_frames) <= 300 million

  • Filesize <= 15Mb

For Video, Orlo supports the following formats:

  • MP4

Some caveats:

  1. Duration should be between 0.5 seconds 140 seconds

  2. File size should not exceed 512 mb

  3. Dimensions should be between 32x32 and 1280x1024

  4. Aspect ratio should be between 1:3 and 3:1

  5. Frame rate should be 40fps or less

  6. Must not have open GOP

  7. Must use progressive scan

  8. Must have 1:1 pixel aspect ratio

  9. Only YUV 4:2:0 pixel format is supported.

  10. Audio should be mono or stereo, not 5.1 or greater

  11. Audio must be AAC with Low Complexity profile. High-Efficiency AAC is not supported

  12. A maximum of one video stream is allowed. Some videos occasionally contain more than one stream and these will not upload
  13. A maximum of one audio stream is allowed. Some videos occasionally contain more than one stream and these will not upload
  14. Video codec must be h264