Twitpic no longer provides fullsized images.

A recent change to Twitpic has made it so that images larger than 600px in width are automatically downsized.

Examples:
post #992551 -> http://twitpic.com/6ie9zx/full From 1074x1624 to 600x907

post #1281257 -> http://twitpic.com/awmgxp/full From 3744x5048 to 600x808

And then there's this confirmation from Twitpic's support: https://twitter.com/Cabel/status/279419147849453568/photo/1/large

I'm worried this change might cause downsized duplicates to be uploaded, so I'm posting here to try to get the word out in hopes to limit this from happening as much as possible.

Looks like this has been happening for nearly a week now, with the last non-resized image being post #1316050.

Might be worth pointing out that the API is still showing their original resolutions.
post #1321205 (600x738) is apparently 821x1011 according to the API.

Sorry for the bump but there's more info on this that needs to be said: even if the image uploaded is equal to or below 600px in width, its filesize will still be reduced/changed. For example: post #1436000, its original filesize is 427.13 KB according to http://api.twitpic.com/2/media/show.xml?id=cv27f9 but has been reduced to 236.06 KB through twitpic.

The artist later uploaded the image onto his homepage, here http://jigizagi.sakura.ne.jp/cg/diary/20130605025143.png, which of course has the original filesize of 427.13 KB.

The same also applies to Twitter's own image hosting. Unfortunately, there are some artists that upload only to twitpic/twitter, so this can't always be avoided, but if an artist tends to upload his/her work later on onto pixiv, a blog or whatever else, it's probably best to just wait until he/she does so.

Or not, I dunno.

Ars said:

Sorry for the bump but there's more info on this that needs to be said: even if the image uploaded is equal to or below 600px in width, its filesize will still be reduced/changed.

There are a few that match in width, height, and filesize, e.g.:

• post #1441037
• post #1439119
• post #1414402

post #1439119 and post #1414402 have been deleted from twitpic, how were you able to pull info on them?

Also, oddly enough, post #1441037's "fullsize"(http://twitpic.com/cwzqa0/full) is now 141846 bytes... unless user #320756 uploaded the correct version from the artist's blog and for whatever reason used the twitpic version as the source? lolidunno

Ars said:

post #1439119 and post #1414402 have been deleted from twitpic, how were you able to pull info on them?

Oops, I put my "else" statement at the wrong level, nevermind.

I can automate making comments indicating the original dimensions/filesize, but is there any point?

RaisingK said:

Oops, I put my "else" statement at the wrong level, nevermind.

I can automate making comments indicating the original dimensions/filesize, but is there any point?

Unless there's some way to seduce twitpic's api into giving the originals through a magic aphrodisiac script or some such, no. There is no point. :<

Ars said:

The same also applies to Twitter's own image hosting. Unfortunately, there are some artists that upload only to twitpic/twitter, so this can't always be avoided, but if an artist tends to upload his/her work later on onto pixiv, a blog or whatever else, it's probably best to just wait until he/she does so.

When I know the artist uploads the same images elsewhere, I do try to prioritize those sources as I've seen the difference. Twitter's own image hosting seems to be even worse than Twitpic as I always find JPEG artifacts very noticeable on images posted there. Well, obviously excepting images in the PNG format (always like it when artists decide to use that for their Twitter images).