Twitter's Fix For Its Annoying Image Preview Crop Tool Is Not Cropping the Images At All

Twitter is launching a test for a small group of iOS and Android users to give people a preview of the company’s fix for the annoying image cropping issue. Twitter, on Wednesday, said that it is now testing a “what you see is what you get” image preview within the tweet compose box and is experimenting with displaying full-frame images. Twitter’s Chief Design Officer Dantley Davis, in a thread, said that the company is launching a test for some iOS and Android users to “give people an accurate preview of how their images will appear when they tweet a photo.” He said that people in the test will see that most tweets with a single image in standard aspect ratio will appear uncropped when posted. Twitter also says its testing new 4K image uploading on Android and iOS as part of a broader push “to improve how you can share and view media on Twitter.” The image preview changes will reduce the number of fingers that were pointed on Twitter’s cropping algorithm.