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A Handy Guide to Social Media Image Sizes - See what works

Some of the popular Social Media Apps are: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Youtube, Google+, Pinterest. A Handy Guide to Social Media Image Sizes

Updated March 19, 2026 2 min read
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A Handy Guide to Social Media Image

 

In today’s digital age, social media has become an integral part of our lives, with millions of users sharing content daily. If you’re using social media for personal or business purposes, optimizing your images for each platform is crucial to make a lasting impression. In this blog post, we present a concise guide to social media image sizes, helping you create visually appealing and properly formatted images for various platforms. To have a social presence it is important to know what type and size of images work best. We have found a healthy resource to share with you from SEW

 

All of the sizes are in pixels (width x height) as of May 2023.

Facebook

  • Profile Picture: 180 x 180 pixels (minimum)
  • Cover Photo: 820 x 312 pixels
  • Shared Image: 1200 x 630 pixels
  • Shared Link: 1200 x 627 pixels
  • Event Image: 1920 x 1080 pixels

 

Twitter

  • Profile Picture: 400 x 400 pixels (minimum)
  • Header Photo: 1500 x 500 pixels
  • In-Stream Photo: 1024 x 512 pixels

 

Instagram

  • Profile Picture: 110 x 110 pixels (minimum)
  • Square Post: 1080 x 1080 pixels
  • Landscape Post: 1080 x 566 pixels
  • Vertical Post: 1080 x 1350 pixels
  • Instagram Stories: 1080 x 1920 pixels

 

LinkedIn

  • Profile Picture: 400 x 400 pixels (minimum)
  • Background Photo: 1584 x 396 pixels
  • Shared Image: 1200 x 627 pixels
  • Company Logo: 300 x 300 pixels (minimum)

 

YouTube

  • Channel Cover Photo: 2560 x 1440 pixels
  • Video Thumbnail: 1280 x 720 pixels

 

Snapchat

  • Geofilter: 1080 x 2340 pixels

 

Pinterest

  • Profile Picture: 165 x 165 pixels
  • Pin Image: 1000 x 1500 pixels (minimum)
  • Board Cover Image: 222 x 150 pixels

You can see some more images about the sizes here at clickZ

By understanding the appropriate image sizes for each social media platform, you can ensure that your visual content looks professional, eye-catching, and consistent across all channels. Remember to consider aspect ratios, resolution, and file formats to optimize your images effectively. Utilize this handy guide to save time and create visually appealing social media posts that engage and captivate your audience.

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Mukesh Pandey

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Mukesh founded Leads Dubai in 2013 with one conviction: marketing should be measured in qualified leads, not impressions. Since then he has guided the agency through three platform shifts — from search-led campaigns to omni-channel lead engines and now AI-driven outbound — while keeping the team in-house and the work obsessively performance-focused.

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