Twitter Video Downloader

Because it was never a GIF. When you attach a GIF to a post, Twitter transcodes it to a silent, looping MP4 before it ever reaches a timeline — the GIF format is enormous and plays badly, so no platform actually serves them. What you save here is the file Twitter stores. If you need a true .gif for a chat window that demands one, any converter will make one from this MP4, at the cost of a much larger file and visibly fewer colours.

Yes. What a timeline displays is a downscaled copy — around six times smaller than the original on a typical phone photo. The file you get here is the one that was uploaded. It is the single most common thing other downloaders get wrong, because the compressed version is the one the page hands them.

Both, along with mobile.twitter.com, m.x.com and t.co short links, which are followed once and re-read. The only part that matters is the numeric status id.

All four, if there are four, numbered in the order they were posted rather than the order they happen to load. If the post has a video as well, that appears alongside them.

Because this works without an account, and what an account can see is exactly what it cannot. Protected accounts, age-restricted posts and NSFW content are reported as protected rather than as a vague failure. Reading them would mean keeping a logged-in X account on this server, which is against the terms and does not survive download traffic for long.

Yes, as an MP3 at 320 kbps, made from the video as it passes through. Nothing is stored on this server — the audio is written straight to your browser.

It stops working immediately, and nothing is kept here afterwards — there is no archive to fall back on. Anything you want to keep is worth saving while the post is up.