Upload video on twitter

Question

I have to upload a video on twitter from android app. I have successfully uploaded image and text on twitter. I am using the twitter4j-core-3.0.3.jar library. <

Answer 1

EDIT 2016: This answer is outdated. Twitter now support video upload in addition to linking.

You cannot upload video directly to Twitter - they simply don't support it.

Here's what you have to do, instead.

1. Upload the video to a 3rd party service (like YouTube)
2. Get the public URL of the uploaded video
3. Add the URL to the status you send to Twitter - e.g. "Here is my video http://example.com/video123"

If you want, you can add a thumbnail of the video as an image attachment.