Social Media platforms are constantly evolving, updating their layouts, and changing how things work. That means you need to constantly work on keeping up with the latest changes – and one of these is the ever-changing image sizes used for profile photos, cover photos, and more.

Luckily, MakeAWebsiteHub.com works on a new infographic every single year that outlines all the different social media image sizes within one, easy to navigate post. You can browse the full infographic below.

We’ve also outlined the most popular Facebook, Instagram & Twitter image sizes below:

Facebook

Cover Photo: 820 x 310 pixels (a preferred maximum file size of 100 KB)
Profile Picture: 180 x 180 pixels
Shared Image: 1200 x 630 pixels
Shared Link: 1200 x 627
Event Image: 1920 x 1080 px
Highlighted Image: 1200 x 717 pixels

Twitter

Profile Photo: 400 x 400 pixels / Displays at 200 x 200 pixels (a maximum 100 KB file size)
Header Photo: 1500 x 500 pixels (a maximum 10 MB file size)
In-stream Photo: 440 x 220 pixels (a maximum 5 MB file size for photos and 3 MB file size for animated gifs)

Instagram

Profile Picture: 110 x 110 pixels
Photo Size: 1080 x 1080 pixels
Video to Stories: 750 x 1334 pixels

Published by Michael Boguslavskiy

Michael Boguslavskiy is a full-stack developer & online presence consultant based out of New York City. He's been offering freelance marketing & development services for over a decade. He currently manages Rapid Purple - and online webmaster resources center; and Media Explode - a full service marketing agency.

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