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    Twitter uses smart cropping to make image previews more interesting

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    Rachel England
    Rachel England
    01.25.2018

    Twitter's recent character limit extension means we're spending more time reading tweets, but now the site now wants us to spend less time looking at pictures. Or more specifically, less time looking for the important bit of a picture. Thanks to Twitter's use of neural networks, picture previews will now be automatically cropped to their most interesting part.