Send to Twitter with image

[greiggy]

Drafts has some great actions for creating Twitter threads e.g. Twitter-Splitter, TweetStorm.

But a good tweet includes an image.

How – in Drafts – do I create a Tweet (or better, a Twitter thread) that includes and publishes an image?

(Similar Qs have been posted before but Drafts’ capabilities are growing, almost every week!)

[Sorashima]

Sorry, I don’t know much about Twitter-Splitter or TweetStorm.

I have a combination of a Drafts’ action and a Shortcut.
With them I can tweet with images.

Drafts Directory: tweetW/img

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/9322f0fafa5b4b4798175581b627c74f

[agiletortoise]

You can do it via Shortcuts, but, generally, I’d recommend passing off to your Twitter client app of choice, and attaching an image there before sending. There are links in the Twitter integration guide to one for Twitter, Twitteriffic, and Tweetbot:

Using Twitter (X) with Drafts

UPDATE: 2023-06-24 It appears that Twitter has now shut down Drafts access to its APIs. As of this time actions that directly integrate with Twitter via the API will no longer work. To send text from Drafts to Twitter, either use the “Share” action and select Twitter’s native app, or use the Tweet with Twitter app action to open the text in the Twitter app’s compose window. UPDATE: Twitter seems to be phasing out support for direct integration. Details are still not super clear, but we have…