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A guide to social media image sizes

One cannot discredit the importance of an effective social media presence in helping improve your credibility online. Although these online platforms have an immense scope for paid campaigns, it is the organic postings, which reach out to the users. A personalized message and good engagement with the client through the social media posting is absolutely essential in building a credible relationship with your clients.

An interesting feature of the social media is that it allows you to post in a number of different media formats, such as text, images, videos animation etc. This enables you to put out your message in multiple ways that appeal to your clients.

Here we present to you the image sizes for Facebook, Twitter, Google +, Youtube, Pinterest, Linkedin and Instagram.

NOTE: All sizes are in pixels

  • Facebook:
    • Profile Picture: 180 x 180 (displays 160 x 160 on desktop, 140 x 140 on smartphones)
    • Cover Photo: 851 x 315 (displays 640 x 360 pixels on smartphones)
    • Shared image and link: 1200 x 630
  • Twitter:
    • Header image: 1500 x 500 (maximum file size 5MB)
    • Profile image: 400 x 400 (displays at 200 x 200, maximum file size 2MB)
    • In-stream photo: 440 x 220 (but can expand to 1024 x 512)
    • Twitter accepts a variety of image formats such as GIF, JPEG, and PNG files
    • Photos can be up to 5MB. Animated GIFs can be up to 3MB
  • Google +:
    • Profile photo: 250 x 250 (maximum file size is 100MB)
    • Cover photo: 1080 x 608 (this is the recommended size, however, the smallest photo you can choose is 480 x 270, the largest photo is 2120 x 1192.)
  • Youtube:
    • Profile image: 100 x 100 (this is automatically taken from the Google+ profile)
    • Cover image: 850 x 176
  • Pinterest:
    • Profile picture: 60 x 60
    • Board display: 216 x 146
    • Pins appear in boards with a maximum width of 236, with the height scaled.
    • Expanded pins have a minimum width of 600, with the height scaled.
  • Linkedin:
    • Profile picture: 120 x 120
    • Banner Image: 646 x 220
    • Link upload thumbnail: 180 x 110
    • Image upload: maximum width is 350 with the height scaled to fit.
  • Instagram:
    • Profile Picture: 77 x 77 (appears as a circular image)
    • Photo Thumbnails: 238 x 238
    • Photo Size: 641 x 641

 

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