What Sizes Should My Images be for Social Media in 2024?

Spend hours creating the most amazing graphic for your social media page, only for it to appear blurry or get cut off? The good news is, the solution is pretty simple. Every social media platform has specific post sizes for each of its features. Knowing these dimensions can help you the next time you design a graphic for your account.

Let’s break down the image sizes for Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and YouTube.

Note: Image sizes are written in width x height.

What are the Best Instagram Image Sizes?

Profile photo: 110 x 110 px
Feed photo size: 1080 x 1080 px
Thumbnail: 161 x 161 px
Feed photo ratio: 4:5

What Size Images do I Need to Use for Facebook?

For a cover photo

Desktop: 820 x 312 pixels
Mobile: 640 x 360 pixels

For a profile photo

Desktop: 180 x 180 pixels
Mobile: 140 x 140 pixels

For a Facebook event

Cover image: 1200 x 628 pixels

Facebook groups cover photo size

Desktop: 1640 x 662 pixels
Mobile: 1640 x 859 pixels

Pro Tip: If you are promoting your post on Facebook, make sure the image is 1200 x 628 pixels. For more information, check Facebook’s guidelines.

What Are The Twitter Image Sizes?

Although Twitter is mainly used for text, you can also publish up to four images per tweet.

Header: 1500 x 500 px (file size must be less than 5 MB)
Profile photo: 400 x 400 px (file size must be less than 2 MB)
File size: 10 MB max
Supported file type: PNG, JPG and GIF

What are the Perfect LinkedIn Image Sizes?

For a personal profile

Cover image: 1584 x 396 px
Profile: 400 x 400 px
Aspect ratio: 4:1

For a company page

Logo size: 300 x 300 px to 400 x 400 px
Cover image: 1584 x 768

What Size Images Should I Be Using on Pinterest?

Profile photo: 165x165 px
Pin size: 236px by adjustable height, 2:3 px ratio for vertical pins (recommended)
Board image size: 222 x 150 px
Supported file type: PNG and JPG

What are the YouTube Image Sizes?

Channel cover photo: 2560 x 1440 px
Channel icon: 800 x 800 px
Video thumbnails: 1280 x 720 px

Video uploads: 16:9 ratio

With the fixed ratio, you can upload your video in various resolutions such as;

4K – 3840 x 2160 pixels
2K –2560 x 1440 pixels
1080p (HD) – 1920 x 1080 pixels
720p (HD) – 1280 x 720 pixels
480p –854 x 480 pixels
360p –640 x 360 pixels
240p –426 x 240 pixels
144p –256 x 144 pixels

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Social StaminaSeptember 10, 2023