Display of Twitter excerpts - feature or bug?

[Princess Turandot]

1. The problem is that the way Twitter handles photos doesn't always work that well for text captures..

The images in the timeline version of the tweet are usually clipped, especially in portrait orientation. If someone adds more than one image to the same tweet, Twitter tiles them. If there are two images, they each get half of the image field. If there are more than two, the first image is shown on the left by itself, while the others are stacked on the right:

Link to tweet

In order to see the full images, you need to click on one of the images in the tweet, which opens a larger version of it. Then you can use the arrows on either side of that view to look at larger versions of the images.

The main problem with the tweet you included is that she added two different screen-cap images of text to the tweet, which requires more clipping for tiling purposes in the timeline view. You can see it more clearly in this tweet from her, where two different text captures are side by side. To compound things, she used a large font for the text that was captured, so even less of each text capture shows up in the timeline. (It does make them easier to read in the full tweet view.)

Link to tweet

The shorter answer: more often than not, you do need to open/expand the tweet to see screen-captured text.