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I'm trying to export images to a twitter account with mathematica and the quality of the images is rather disappointing.

enter image description here

Here are the others in case you want to see it in the wild: here

This is the code I use to export.

ServiceExecute[twitter, "ImageTweet", {"Image" -> plot}]

Where plot is the output of a simple ListLinePlot function. Cannot find any documentation about this. I tried making the image larger but that only made for a larger and uglier post. Any help is appreciated.

As per comments, the rasterized image looks like this when exported to my computer:

enter image description here

but if I tweet the image the result is quite ugly:

enter image description here

I didn't add a mwe before since you need a tweeter account to try it, but here it is:

twitter = ServiceConnect["Twitter"]
plot = Rasterize[
  ParametricPlot[{Sin[t], Cos[t] + Sin[\[Pi] t]}, {t, 1, 10}, 
   Axes -> False, AspectRatio -> 1, Background -> Hue[color], 
   ImageSize -> Large], RasterSize -> 2000, ImageSize -> 800]
ServiceExecute[twitter, "ImageTweet", {"Image" -> plot}]
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    Why not use Rasterize[] first to ensure an image of known resolution is being tweeted? – J. M.'s missing motivation May 20 '16 at 03:06
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    In the absence of further information, I don't see how we can judge what makes an image "disappointing," so the advice by @J.M. is the only safe answer. If this doesn't work, you'd have to supply a MWE in Mathematica code. – Jens May 20 '16 at 04:13
  • @Jens I hope now it's clear what I mean by disappointing images. I wonder if this is a tweeter or mathematica issue. – tsuresuregusa May 20 '16 at 06:36
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    You should always give "Image" as the second argument to Rasterize for preserving quality on export, see here detailed explanations. But it does not explain the catastrophic loss of the quality in your case; looks like your image is tweeted in a lossy JPEG format. – Alexey Popkov May 20 '16 at 07:25
  • Can you show me the actual image and the one that is being uploaded to twitter? Also which version of Mathematica are you using? And what is PacletInformation["ServiceConnection_Twitter"] gives you? – dsingh May 20 '16 at 21:14
  • @dsingh mma 10.3.1 in macosx 10.8.5 the images I'm uploading to twitter are the second and third, first what I see in my computer and then the tweeter version. PacletInformation["ServiceConnection_Twitter"] returns {} – tsuresuregusa May 20 '16 at 23:35
  • @tsuresuregusa I cannot reproduce it. I can see the same image being uploaded to twitter as is the actual image shown on my computer or with Import["imagepath"] in mathematica! – dsingh May 23 '16 at 19:26
  • @dsingh weird. Are you also in mac? – tsuresuregusa May 24 '16 at 03:17
  • @tsuresuregusa yes I checked it on mac 10.11.4 – dsingh May 24 '16 at 15:36

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