How do I add an image to a tweet or how does twitter decide which image urls to render

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If I post a tweet with a link to a picture it will only display the link. But if twitpic post an image link (or rather a link to a page with an image) twitter will render the image (smaller albeit).

I know twitter now has Tweet Entities but those appear to be for reading and not writing.

And yeah I could use twitpic but I rather not since we already have the images saved and ready to go.

Basically how do you become like: twitpic, lockerz, photobucket, yfrog... so on so that twitter recognizes your links as images.

Update: I know twitter will provide upload image api soon but I would rather have the image content on my site.

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You can add Images to a tweet when You specify the "media_Ids" in the Api call (statuses/update). To upload media files You have to read this: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/media/uploading-media

I´m working on an automatic solution for this. It´s a bit tricky, but You can find a solutionn at time.

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