“Green eye”
people still love my Photo “pon” Facebook? Now “unnu” see it on Twitter and
wanna download it? I don’t “wrong” you; “is me tek it” or arranged into a Collage
and posted it using Picture
Collage Maker Pro, Collages of course being original works of art, even if
the pictures are borrowed from someone else’s Facebook or Twitter Profile
But aside from
the fancy software for making Collages, how does one bulk download Pictures
from Twitter from your own Profile or someone else’s? “One one cocoa full
basket” is a bit too long; I need something that’s faster than opening one page
one at a time.
In my Geezam blog article entitled “How
to download Photo Albums and Videos from your Personal and your Friend’s
Profile on Facebook” I listed software options that make it easier for you
downloaders to ….ahem…. “mek a borrows” of someone else’s pictures on Facebook,
even downloading the very last Picture.
So after several
months of searching, dear reader, I’ve located a gem or at least a series of
gems in the form of Google Chrome Extensions, Apps or Downloadable Programs
that help to do the above crime of stealing works of photographic art.
And I shall
reveal the fruits of my labour….but not before I tell you why you’ll want to
download Twitter Photos: the Organic Engagement of Twitter followers is
phenomenal. You see, on Twitter, very few who are on Twitter actually Tweet,
suggesting that the few that do are dedicated users and followers of Twitter
due its minimalistic approach to Messaging.
Based on Stats
by Twitter analyst Twopcharts in the Wall Street Journal, 44% the 974 million Twitterati
have never Tweeted as pointed out in the article “Silent
birds: 44 percent of Twitter users have never Tweeted”, published April 11,
2014 by Christian Brazil Bautista, DigitalTrends
and “Report:
44% of Twitter Accounts Have Never Sent a Tweet”, published Apr 11, 2014
8:00 am ET By Yoree Koh, Wall Street Journal.
They're
considered active users in Twitter metrics, once they log in once a month,
which is why their engagement Stats suggest that they have 200 million Active
users back in April 2013 as stated in “Twitter
surpasses 200M active monthly users”, published December 18, 2012 7:37 AM
PST by Jonathan Skillings, CNET News and “WhatsApp CEO:
We're Bigger than Twitter's 200M users”, published April 16, 2013 8:26 AM
PDT by Roger Cheng, CNET News. According to
the stats from Twopcharts, it's really a lot less.
Blame it on the
lackluster interface, which hearkens back to a time when everything was SMS
(Short Messaging Service) or Text Messages, not IM (Instant Messaging) where
you have oodles of space to say what's on your mind. Truth be told, Twitter
needs to launch a new design and new products, such as VoIP Calling over Wi-Fi
and 3G, otherwise they face losing a lot of members to rival Mobile Social
Media such as Facebook owned WhatsApp.
And that’s
exactly what Twitter has done…..
Twitter New Clothes – Facebook’s Timeline Profile look
good on you, Twitter
But back to my
hunt for a picture stealing Bulk downloader for Twitter! I’ve been looking for
something equivalent to that for Twitter but with much difficulty, as it seems
most software focus on downloading pictures from Websites, not Social Media, software
in itself an article in its own right.
Why my interest
in Twitter all of a Sudden?
Well, they’ve
been making some weird changes that are making them look more and more like
Facebook as stated in “Twitter
starts rolling out Facebook-like user profile redesign”, published April 8,
2014 By Mike Flacy, DigitalTrends.
The first being announced since Tuesday April 8th 2014 officially on
Twitter’s
Blog as stated in “Coming
soon: a whole new you, in your Twitter profile”, published Tuesday, April
8, 2014 By David Bellona (@davidbellona), Designer [11:53 UTC], Twitter Blog.
Read up folks;
the emphasis is on Photos, with more capabilities now enabled in Twitter aside
from just Quad-posted Tagging Photos as I’d pointed out in my Geezam blog article entitled “Twitter
add Photo-Tagging and uploading Multiple Photos as Mobile Social Media Evolves”.
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Of course, new
features are in the works, which amusingly sound a lot like the offerings on Hootsuite or any of those other SMM (Social
Media Management) tool’s I’ve listed in my Geezam
blog article entitled “Social
Media Management Tools help you to manage your Social Networks all at once”.
First off the
bat, your Best Tweets, based either on your choice of Tweets or just Traffic Stats,
will be a lot bigger. Ok, that sounds great. You can now Pin Your Tweets, a
feature which sounds like it was plagiarized from Pinterest, not Facebook.
Visitors are now
treated to your tweet at all times as it makes sure visitors to your Twitter
page see your best side at all times. Filtering of Tweets is now possible,
again a Hootsuite or SMM Software
feature. The options are a little easier but less granular than SMM software
though, which I really like:
- Tweets
- Tweets with photos/videos
- Tweets and replies
This will make
handling Twitter a lot easier, as it's a little difficult switch between the
various sections of Twitter as it is now, since the content and your Followers
replies are all jumbled up in one long “Me” Twitter Feed. Still disappointed
there's no improved Twitter Integration with Facebook, but making Twitter look
more like Facebook is a great start!
You can scope
out the following Web Profiles that got an early pre-taste of what's to come,
which, Facebook style, is coming whether you like it or not, as mentioned on Twitter’s
Blog :
- Film stars @zacefron and @channingtatum
- French TV host @nikosaliagas
- Australian Football League @AFL
- First Lady Michelle Obama @flotus
- Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter @gilbertogil
- Boxer @FloydMayweather
- TV star @kerrywashington
- Musicians @JohnLegend and band @weezer
Finally Real-time Notifications – Twitter steps up to
Facebook’s Messenger World
So where’s the
improvement to notifications? Twitter has apparently gotten the memo from the
members of the Twitterati such as myself that regularly complain via @Twitter;
they’ve thrown that in too along with keeping-up-with-Facebook's-timeline
changes. Twitter will soon be launching a Web-based Notification System as
stated in “Twitter
to launch pop-up notifications for the Web”, published April 10, 2014 By
Mike Flacy, DigitalTrends.
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This makes
interactions on Twitter more real-time, the main difficulty some people have
with Twitter. Unless you have a smartphone with the mobile Twitter App, knowing
when someone just Favourites, ReTweets and Replies to my Tweets isn't
immediately obvious.
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Hopefully,
they’ll add Customized Alerts and Time related Alerts and even the ability to
track when someone else Tweets, a sort of Google Alerts for those Twitter
stalkers …er…… I mean followers….among us. Somewhat disappointed Twitter hasn’t
addressed their lackluster Search Engine to allow you to search with greater
precision like Facebook’s Open Graph.
Twitter hasn’t
even addressed the issue of Twitter spamming and even Bot Accounts as described
in my Geezam blog article entitled “61%
of all Traffic on the Internet is generated by bots”, which if the Stats in
my article is correct, may even be as much as 50% of those of us who do
regularly use Twitter…. assuming they’re human, of course.
Twitter’s PhotoGrabber – Twitter Image Downloader
makes it a snap to grab the Last 200
So back to this
picture downloading thing! With all this focus on pictures and the Organic
Engagement thanks to the dedicated 56% that actually
actively Tweet daily, it’s great to know that finally a way exists to
download Twitter photos.
The program is
called Twitter Image
Downloader and it’s as easy as Tweeting itself. Developed by the Developers
at CodeBetweentheLines in
response to Twitter’s removal of the Photo Grid option as pointed out in “Download
all photos a Twitter user has posted”, published January 3, 2013 by Martin
Brinkmann, Ghacks, Twitter Image Downloader
empowers you with the ability to download Photos in bulk.
If you have a
longing for the Photo Grid, you can re-enable the option again once you
download one of three Apps or
Extensions in Google Chrome Webstore on a Google Chrome Browser:
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Also, it’s a bit
slow and not so quick on the draw, requiring that you have a little patience
and wait until the pictures populate while it downloads them for the target
account. Even more annoying is its 200 image limit; cracking beyond that
limitation should be forthcoming in another update of CodeBetweentheLines API (Application
Interface) for Twitter
Image Downloader.
Still, it works
a lot like PhotoGrabber,
which is why I love it to bits. Folks, now would be a good time to get active
again on Twitter if you’ve not logged in for awhile. Getting the smartphone app
isn’t too bad either, be it to post Collages made with Picture
Collage Maker Pro or steal…ahem….I mean “mek a borrows” of someone’s Twitter
Pictures using Twitter
Image Downloader to fit Twitter’s new Groove.
Here’s the
links:
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