Here is a handy shortcut for getting your hands on social media video - but make sure you have the copyright holder's consent first
NB: social media videos are subject to copyright, and you must first get permission of the original copyright holder before using their content.
It is quite possible that you need to download a video from Twitter for your next deadline.
Screen recording the video is one option, but is not the best method. Instead, you can just copy the Twitter URL and head to websites like www.twdown.net, where you can download the file and save it to your camera roll.
Mobile journalist Glen Mulcahy provides a Twitter video tutorial on how to do this on iPhone - and fear not Android users, mobile journalist, Bernhard Lill added that an even simpler way to do it exists using using Friendly for Twitter (and it has versions for Instagram and Facebook too).
And now the good news for all Android users: just install the Twitter client Friendly for Twitter and you can download photos and videos just by tapping the download button. Life can be so easy ;-) there's also Friendly for Instagram and for FB. pic.twitter.com/0JxJRsGqVR— ʙᴇʀɴʜᴀʀᴅ ʟɪʟʟ 💻📲🔋 (@dermedientyp) February 26, 2020
And now the good news for all Android users: just install the Twitter client Friendly for Twitter and you can download photos and videos just by tapping the download button. Life can be so easy ;-) there's also Friendly for Instagram and for FB. pic.twitter.com/0JxJRsGqVR
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