Twitter It is one of the most intense social networks, in which all kinds of content is shared: from documents and images to all kinds of memes and videos. How many times have we seen a video on Twitter that we liked and that we have not been able to download to share in other media! If that is your intention, here we are going to explain how to download videos from twitter, on a computer or mobile.
The valid method for Facebook, that of copying the code to paste or save it, will not help us in this case. You have to look for other means. that entails resort to external applications or pages that allow us to execute the extraction of the video in an efficient and safe way.
There is some data and statistics about twitter videos which is interesting to know, especially to realize the weight that these contents have in the popularity and use of this social network:
- More than two million videos are viewed on Twitter every day.
- 32% of users say that watching videos is the third reason they are on Twitter, after receiving information and seeing photos.
- Tweets that contain videos receive 10 times more interactions (likes, comments, retweets...) than the rest.
From a computer
There are two forms to download videos from Twitter from a computer, to later save them in the memory unit and watch them whenever we want, or share them with our friends and contacts. The two methods are through a specific website to execute this task or by downloading a program to extract videos. Let's see an example of each option:
Twitter Video Downloader
It is not the only website of this type. There are others that can be equally effective for this type of action, such as twdown.net o downloadtwittervideo.com. however, in this post we will focus on Twitter Video Downloader, whose operation is more than assured. These are the steps to follow when we are going to use this website:
- First of all, we have to open Twitter and go directly to the tweet that contains the video.
- We copy the link or URL of the tweet that is displayed in the browser bar.*
- Then we go to the Twitter Video Downloader website and in the central drawer that appears on the screen we paste the link previously copied.
- We click the button "Download".
- Finally, we choose one of the resolution options that are offered to us: 320 x 320, 540 x 540, etc.
(*) Another option is to click on the icon of the three tweet points and in the drop-down select “Copy link to Tweet”.
Link: twittervideodownloader.com
jDownloader
This is a well-known download manager application that works quite well regardless of our operating system. The highlight of jDownloader is that, in addition to managing downloads from direct download pages, it is also capable of extracting content from almost any website.
To download Twitter videos using this method, what we must do is this:
- First of all is download jDownloader software and install it on our computer.
- Then we go to Twitter and We copy the URL of the tweet that contains the video, as we have explained in the previous method.
- Next, we upload the copied link to jDownloader, which will start the download process. Insights.
- Just a few seconds later, the program will show us the results, notifying us that the link contains a multimedia file that can be downloaded.
- To finish, we click with the right mouse button and select "Add and start download". In a few moments the video will be saved on our computer.
Link: jDownloader
From a mobile phone
Given that 93% of video views are made from mobile phones, it is more than interesting to know how to download them using a smartphone. Let's see two ways to do it: manually or using an external application.
Manual method
The way to do it is the same, regardless of whether our phone is an Android or an iPhone:
- The first step is to enter Twitter and keep your finger pressed on the screen where the video appears.
- By doing this, a small window will appear with the option "Copy video address", which we must select.
- Now, we open our favorite browser and insert into the bar the address of Twitter Video Download or another similar page (downloadtwittervideo.com, twdown.net, etc.), since they all work more or less in the same way.
- Finally, we click on "Download" and select the resolution quality.
Mobile apps
These are not the only applications we have to download Twitter videos, but they are probably two of the best: Video Downloader for Twitter (Android) and Tweet Save (iOS).
Its operation is also similar: you have to go to the video on Twitter that you want to download and click on it so that the message appears. "Copy video address." Then, we have to open the app and automatically the different resolution quality options will appear. All you have to do is choose one of them to start the download.