Twitter improving photo upload quality and investing in open standard social network experiment

guest · Dec 11, 2019

Twitter improving photo upload quality and investing in open standard social network experiment
December 11, 2019
https://ww.9to5mac.com/2019/12/11/twitter-jpeg-quality-and-investing-in-open-standard/

Twitter has announced today that users uploading images via the web will now see JPEG quality preserved. Separately, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey shared that the company is building a small team of open-source architects, engineers, and designers to create an “open and decentralized standard” that Twitter could be based on in the future.

Twitter’s senior staff software engineer, Nolan O’Brien shared more details on the update today in a tweet, explaining that the image encoding is preserved at 97% quality (via TechCrunch). O’Brien also notes that EXIF data will be still be stripped.
Keep in mind this update is only rolled out to Twitter for Web, so you won’t see the same on Twitter’s iOS app or third-party clients for now.

O’Brien further clarified that bitmap encoding is retained while metadata is not. He also shared that there will still be image limits but that they are “very generous” and “pretty much any 8 megapixel photo will be preserved and even up to 16 megapixels can be preserved (in square aspect ratio).”
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In other Twitter news today, CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted this morning about the company creating a new team to work on “an open and decentralized standard for social media.”
While vague, he said “The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard.”

Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard.
— jack (@jack) December 11, 2019
He went on to explain in another tweet that the team is called “bluesky” and is headed up by Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal.
He noted they are hiring for the team and the project would take “many years.” [...] — jack (@jack) December 11, 2019
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TechCrunch: Twitter will now preserve JPEG quality for photo uploads on the web

CNET: Twitter wants to create a 'decentralized standard' for social media

guest · Aug 16, 2021

Twitter’s decentralized social network project finally has a leader
Jay Graber is leading the project and hiring developers
August 16, 2021
https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/16/22627435/twitter-bluesky-lead-jay-graber-decentralized-social-web

Bluesky, the Twitter-funded effort to create a decentralized social network standard, has finally found a project lead — the creator of Happening, Jay Graber. Bluesky and Graber have also begun hiring for the project’s first developers, meaning the slowly gestating project might finally become a bit less “blue sky” and a bit more real.

Graber was also one of the authors of a report Bluesky published in January detailing its research into decentralized web systems.

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be leading @bluesky, an initiative started by @Twitter to decentralize social media. Follow updates on Twitter and at https://t.co/Sg4MxK1zwl
— Jay Graber (@arcalinea) August 16, 2021
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What’s less clear is if Bluesky will build on existing decentralized projects like ActivityPub, the social networking standard used in Mastodon, or create something new.

If you’re invested in Bluesky’s ongoing work in the space, especially now that there’s a leader to kick things into gear, Graber also shared that the project has a dedicated Discord to follow along with development and discuss elements of the project as they’re announced. Hopefully that happens more frequently now that Graber’s in charge.
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