What width / height pixel size should be Facebook
and Twitter Avatar logos
I had to create a number of Facebook and Twitter accounts for one
of the companies where I am employed. As I had to put Avatars to
each and every new account. I therefore had to resize the company
logos to fit the to the avatar dimensions..
It took me a bit of research until I found the proper picture
dimensions. Here are the dimensions:
For
facebook page Avatar the good picture width / height
dimensions is a square like:
151x151 pixels
If however you prefer to have a sky scraper picture in Facebook,
this is possible as thumbnail pictures up to
180x540 w/h
pixels are showing up in FB.
At most cases
FaceBook automatically resizes the uploaded
picture and generates a thumbnail which in most pictures looks
okay, however in some odd picture dimensions the picture preview
might be messy, so its better to ship the profile pic in standard
square size like
151x151/i>, 256x256, 313x313 etc.
For Twitter page Avatar the fixed picture width / height dimensions
is:
73x73 pixels
In Twitter again the avatar picture should be a square like, to
have twitter during upload automatically resize and make a good
looking pic thumbnail. If some picture with a non square dimensions
is uploaded as an Avatar for twitter account usually, twitter's pic
auto resize server side program chops parts of the picture. This is
not a bug but expected behaviour. In
Twitter another
requirement is that the uploaded avatar image does not exceed
700kb, trying to puload a picture over 700k fails.
In both Facebook and Twitter the uploaded Avatar logo should be in
format
JPEG, GIF or PNG .
To
resize the company logo pictures for FB and Twitter, I
used
GIMP 's:
Image -> Scale Image
menus.
I've red some people claiming the size of the Avatar logo in
Facebook could have some impact in terms of e-marketing, but I'm
not sure if this is a fact or some false rumour. Anyways it is sure
that a wide sky scraper like picture allows you to show more even
from the profile and maybe through the picture have larger
influence over the audience.