Twitter Rolls Out Image Galleries

Over the last few months, Twitter has been rolling out some key new enhancements to their user experience, adding improved search functionality and the ability to upload images right from a user’s Twitter stream. The photo upgrade came thanks to Photobucket hosting and appeared as a pic.twitter link and image for a user’s followers, as we reported in June and again two weeks ago, when the feature was officially available to a full 100 percent of Twitter users.

“The images included in user galleries can come from Twitter, yFrog, TwitPic, Instagram and other image sharing services supported in Twitter’s details pane”, Twitter said via its Help Center.

As to the technical limitations of the image galleries, display (as mentioned before) will include a user’s 100 most recent images, and, unfortunately, video thumbnails will not be included, nor will Tweets with video links. What’s more, Tweets with images that were sent before January 1, 2010 will not be included in image galleries.

For those looking for the new user galleries, they can be found on your profile page. According to Twitter’s Help Center, clicking “view all” will open the user gallery in the current window. Two different viewing options are included, being grid view and detail view, with the former being self explanatory and the latter showing the user the most recent image, “complete with the body of the Tweet displayed below it and thumbnails for other images above it”, Twitter said.