Tweet to Image
without the screenshot.
Paste a link to a real post and get a clean PNG of it — full text, real counts, light or dark. No watermark, no account.
Why a screenshot of a tweet always looks wrong.
Everyone has tried the obvious thing. You open the post, drag a selection box around it, and paste the result into a slide. Then you look at it on a projector and it's soft, because your window was at 60% zoom and you captured 480 pixels of something that needs to be a metre wide. Or the edge of the sidebar came along for the ride. Or you cropped tight to fix that and cut off the handle, which is the one part that proves it's real.
Then there's the dark-mode problem. Half the internet browses X in dark mode, and a black rectangle dropped into a white deck looks like a mistake — so you either redo the screenshot in the other theme or you live with it. And if the post is long, X collapses it behind a Show more link, so the screenshot quietly ends mid-sentence.
This page skips all of it. Paste the link, pick a background, download a clean PNG at a size that holds up when it's blown up.
What you actually get.
A single PNG, 1000 pixels wide, with the author's avatar, display name and handle, the full text of the post, the timestamp in your own timezone, and the reply, repost, like and view counts as they stood when you made it. Long posts are rendered in full up to about sixty lines — the ones X hides behind Show more included — with the type sized down so a 1,500-character post is still a sensible shape for a slide rather than a mile-long strip.
The height follows the post instead of the other way round, so a six-word banger comes out as a short, wide card you can drop straight into a title slide, and nothing is padded out to fit a template.
Where these end up.
Slides
A real post from a real person is the fastest way to make a claim land in a deck. Light background for a light theme, dark for a dark one, and it looks like it belongs rather than like something you grabbed on the way to the meeting.
Newsletters and blog posts
The official X embed needs JavaScript, which most email clients throw away, and on the web it drags in a third-party script that watches your readers. A PNG does neither. It renders in every inbox and it loads in one request.
Testimonials and case studies
A nice thing someone said about your product reads very differently with the handle and the like count attached. That's the whole argument for using the real post rather than retyping the quote.
Real posts only.
This tool reads the post from the official X API, which means it can only ever show you something that genuinely exists — the name, the handle, the avatar and the counts all come back from X, not from a form you filled in. That's deliberate. An image of a post carries weight precisely because it's hard to fake, and a tool that let you type any words under any handle would quietly spend that.
If what you want is a mock-up — a post that doesn't exist, for a design comp or a joke — that's a different job and it has its own page: the Fake Tweet Generator, where nothing is presented as real.
Frequently asked questions.
Is Tweet to Image free?
Yes. No account, no card, no email. Thirty images a day per browser, which exists because every new post we render is a paid call to the official X API on our side. Making the same post again — or flipping it between light and dark — doesn't count against that.
Is there a watermark?
No. What you download is the post and nothing else: no Penwell badge, no logo in the corner, no URL stamped along the bottom. You should not have to crop anything before it goes in a deck.
Does it work on posts from protected accounts?
No, and it can't. A protected account's posts aren't public, so the X API returns nothing for them no matter who's asking. You'll see a message saying the post couldn't be found — the same one you get for a post that was deleted, because from the outside those two look identical.
What resolution is the image?
1000 pixels wide. The height depends on how long the post is, so a one-liner comes out short and an essay comes out tall — there's no fixed frame padding a short post with dead space. That's roughly twice the size a post renders at on screen, so it stays sharp on a retina display and on a projector.
Can I use the image in something commercial?
The words in a post belong to whoever wrote them, and turning a post into a picture doesn't change that. In practice this is the same as quoting someone: fine in a talk, a newsletter, or an article, and the attribution is built in because the name and handle are on the card. If you're putting it on a product page or an ad, ask the author first.