Twitter screenshot generator: turn a real X post into a clean image

What the image shows, and what it leaves out

The card copies the post as X shows it to a logged-out visitor: profile photo, display name, the blue verified badge when the account has one, the @handle, the full text with line breaks, and the date and time in your own time zone. Photos appear in a grid of up to four. A video or GIF shows its still frame with a play icon.

Counts come from X at the moment you press Generate. Replies, reposts (with quotes added in), likes and views show when they are above zero; bookmarks are not shown, and counts cannot be hidden yet.

• Links in the text are removed, because X shortens them to t.co addresses that mean nothing in an image.
• A quote post shows only the outer post, not the quoted one. Polls and link previews are not drawn.
• Long posts from X Premium accounts can come through cut short.
• The text cannot be edited. What you download is what the author posted.

Sizes for Instagram, LinkedIn carousels and newsletters

The PNG is about 880 pixels wide when you generate it on a laptop or desktop, and narrower on a phone, so make it on a computer when size matters. It has no padding or background, which makes it easy to drop onto a canvas of the right shape in Canva, Figma or any editor.

• Instagram feed: a 1080 x 1350 canvas (4:5) gives the most room in the feed. 1080 x 1080 (1:1) also works. The 880 px card fits with about 100 px of margin on each side at full size.
• Instagram and Facebook Stories: 1080 x 1920 (9:16). Keep the card in the middle, clear of the top and bottom 250 px where the app draws its buttons.
• LinkedIn document carousel: use one page size for every slide, 1080 x 1350 or 1080 x 1080, and export the set as a PDF.
• Newsletters: most email templates are 600 px wide. Show the PNG at 440 to 600 px wide and it stays sharp on retina screens.

Light and dark themes

The card comes in one theme: a white card with black text and gray counts, close to X's default light mode. There is no dark mode, dim mode, gradient or custom background option yet.

The white card still works on a dark design. Its corners are transparent, so you can place it on a black or brand-colored canvas and it reads as a card floating on the background. For a full dark look, a paid screenshot tool with theme settings, or a screenshot of X in dark mode, is the better choice today.

Credit the author and respect X's terms

A tweet belongs to the person who wrote it. X's terms say users keep the rights to what they post, and X handles copyright complaints about reposted text and images. A screenshot that keeps the name and handle visible is the usual way to quote a post, and it is how most people share a post outside X.

• Keep the name, handle and date in the image. Do not crop them out.
• Tag the author in your caption where the network allows it, or name them in the post.
• Use your own posts and your clients' posts freely. For anyone else, quoting a post to comment on it is common; using it in an ad or to sell something needs their permission.
• Never present an edited or made-up post as real. This tool cannot create one.

Why a link may not work

The tool reads the post the way a logged-out visitor would. If a stranger cannot see the post, the tool cannot either, and it answers 'Tweet not found or unavailable'.

• The account is protected (private), suspended or deactivated.
• The post was deleted, or it is marked sensitive or age-restricted.
• The link is a profile, a search or a list, not a post. It must contain /status/ followed by a number.
• Links shaped like x.com/i/web/status/... are rejected. Open the post and copy the link from Share instead.
• After 30 posts in 10 minutes from one IP address, the tool asks you to wait. X itself sometimes refuses requests for a short time; try again a minute later.

How to screenshot a tweet without a tool, and when the tool is better

You can take a plain screenshot: on iPhone press the side button and volume up together, on most Android phones press power and volume down, on a Mac press Shift, Command and 4 and drag, and on Windows press Windows, Shift and S. Then crop.

A plain screenshot also catches the app's menus, other replies, your battery icon and whatever mode your screen is in, and it is only as sharp as your display. A generated image is the post alone, cropped exactly, at twice the resolution, the same every time. X does not notify anyone when you take a screenshot or generate an image of their post.