Download Pictures from Twitter

It is possible to download photos and other images from Twitter either on your phone or your computer. This article describes how to do that, as well as how to download images from tweets with more than one image. If you're trying to download an image from a tweet with more than one image, you'll need to follow different steps. for instructions on saving a Twitter gallery image.

Steps

Downloading Photos to Your iOS Device

1. Allow Twitter access to your photos. Open the Settings app. In the Settings app, touch Privacy, then touch Photos. Touch the Twitter toggle to make it green. If it's already green, you don't need to do anything.
   • This allows Twitter to save images to your photo roll. If you don't allow Twitter access, images will not save.
2. Open Twitter. Log into the Twitter app with your login information.
   • If you're using a third party app to access Twitter, you should still be able to save Twitter images, but the steps may be a little different. You will need to give that third party app access to your photos.
3. Find the image you want to save. Scroll through your Twitter feed until you find the image that you want to download. Touch the image to expand it.
4. Save the image. Touch and hold the image until the dialog appears, and then touch Save photo. The image is saved to your phone in the Photos app.
5. Open the image. Open the Photos app. The saved image should be there.

Downloading Photos to Your Android Device

1. Open Twitter. Log into the Twitter app with your login information.
   • If you don't have the Twitter app, it can be downloaded for free from the Google Play Store.
   • If you're using a third party app to access Twitter, you should still be able to save Twitter images, but the steps may be a little different.
2. Find the image you want to save. Scroll through your Twitter feed until you find the image that you want to download. Touch the image to expand it.
3. Save the image. Touch the menu button in the upper-right corner. Touch Save. The image is saved to your Android's storage. If you haven't saved any Twitter images before, a Twitter folder will be created.
4. Open the image. Depending on your settings, you can access the Twitter image in either the Photos or the Gallery app.

Downloading Photos to Your Computer

1. Go to Twitter. Open a web browser, and go to twitter.com. Sign in to your Twitter account.
2. Find the image you want to save.
3. Click the image you want to save. This opens the expands the image within its tweet. You can not save the image at this point.
4. Click the image again to maximize it. This opens a much larger version of the image that can be downloaded.
   • If a tweet has multiple images, Twitter disables the download option from each photo in the gallery. for instructions on saving a Twitter gallery image.
5. Save the photo. Right-click the image, and then save the image. If prompted, choose a folder on your computer where you want the photo saved.
   • In Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, right-click the image, and then click Save Image As.
   • In Internet Explorer, right-click the image, and then click Save as.
   • The image is saved to your browser's download folder.

Downloading Gallery Images to Your Computer

These steps work best with Chrome or Safari. You can do this in Firefox too, but it's trickier.

1. Find a tweet with more than one image. Click the image you want to save to open it.
2. Inspect the HTML source code to find the image URL. Right-click the image, and then click Inspect Element. This opens the browser's HTML code inspector tool.
3. In the inspector pane, click the inspector button.
   • In Chrome, this looks like a magnifying class in the top left corner of the inspector pane.
   • In Safari, this looks like a target in the header, toward the right.
4. Click the Twitter image you want to save. This jumps the inspector to the approximate location of the image in the HTML code.
5. Find the image directory. The gallery image is saved in a series of nested
   tags. The image is located in <div class="Gallery">, <div class="Gallery-media">, <img class="media-image" src="IMAGE URL" />. Click the right arrows to expand a div until you see the img src tag.
6. Find the image URL. Look for a URL that starts with https://pbs.twimg.com/media/.
7. In Chrome, right-click the URL, and then click Open Link in New Tab. Go to the new tab and save the image.
8. In Safari, click the image to open it in the inspector, then right-click the image, and then click Download Image. The image is downloaded to your default download folder.