How to Download Twitter Videos on Computer and Mobile Devices (Incl. Free)

Twitter, known as a popular mainstream social media in the globe, which has attracting billions of people to share and communicate their thoughts or meaningful moments in text, image or video formats. However, it doesn’t offer a built-in download function, forbidding people to download Twitter videos directly when they come across favorite ones, which is similar to YouTube

Don’t worry about that. If you have according demands, welcome to read this post, which illustrates 5 different ways on how to download a Twitter video on computer, iPhone and Android easily and safely.

How to Download a Twitter Video on Computer with the Best App

Cisdem Video Converter is the best Twitter video downloader app, allowing people to save any videos from Twitter in a super fast speed. It originally supports downloading videos from many other streaming websites easily and safely, such as YouTube, Facebook, Bilibili, Dailymotion, etc. And it is able to download videos in 4K, 8K, 12K resolution or higher, offering crystal like pictures for people to enjoy and edit.

Main features of the best Twitter video download App

• Only require the URL to download all Twitter videos in high quality, including yours and others
• Can also download videos from other 1000+ websites
• Download and convert Twitter videos to 600+ video and audio formats, like MP4, AVI, MOV, MP3, AIFF, etc.
• Able to download multiple videos at once without leaking personal information
• Can customize the file parameters based on personal needs
• Offer a wide range of editing features, such as cutting off unwanted segments, cropping extra video parts, adjusting video effects, etc.
• Combine several clips into one large file
• Work on Windows and Mac

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Steps on how to download a video from Twitter via Cisdem

Step 1. Get the best Twitter video downloader App

Download and install the latest version of the App based on your computer system.

Double-click to run it, 3 tabs will appear in your sight. Click for downloading videos.

Step 2. Copy a URL from Twitter

Visit Twitter website with any browser on your computer, find any video you want, right-click on anywhere of the video and select the popped-up “Copy video address” option.

Step 3. Paste the URL

Back on Cisdem, paste the URL into the bottom field for adding URL, click “+” or hit on “enter” key to analyze the video.

Step 4. Download a Twitter video safely

After analyzing, you can select the Format button to choose a desired resolution. Finally, tap on “Download” icon at the bottom right corner.

Q1: How to download multiple videos from twitter?

If you want to batch download Titter videos, you can repeat the copy-n-paste process to download videos in bulk. For Mac version, there is an easier way by clicking “Files > Input URLs” on the top menu bar. Then, you only need to paste the copied URLs, one URL for one line. Once done, tap on “OK” button to analyze them simultaneously and immediately, and then follow the steps mentioned above to download them at once.

Q2: How to make the downloaded Twitted videos to any format you want?

Since Cisdem Video Converter is prowess for a converter, you can also rely on the conversion function to convert the downloaded videos to other 600+ formats supported by Cisdem. To do so, tick out  icon on the video thumbnail to find them on your local folder, and then drag and drop them to the first interface of Cisdem, which is for conversion. The rest is to select the output format and start the converting process.

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How to Download a Twitter Video with Browser Extension

Plenty of useful extensions are created to download videos from Twitter. And Twitter Video Downloader produced by ssstwitter.com is one of the most popular extension on the internet. However, after trying it, it doesn’t work as it mentioned, it doesn’t show you related download options directly. Instead, it leads you to its online version. All in all, it is more like an online Twitter downloader.

In this case, we will show you another powerful and useful extension, which is called Video DownloadHelper. It is a cross-platform tool that works on Firefox, Chrome and Edge. Besides downloading Twitter videos, it can also download videos from YouTube, VK, Vodlocker, Vimeo, Facebook and many other streaming websites. A slightly annoying issue of it is that it always asks you to download its app version. And it can’t download multiple videos from Twitter at once, so that you need to download them one by one.

Steps on how to download videos from Twitter with extension

1. Open Google Chrome (take it as an example).
2. Search for Video DownloadHelper on the chrome web store and add it as your chrome extension easily.
3. Visit Twitter with your account, move to wherever contains the video you want.
4. Make sure the video is playing.
5. The extension will start to detect the video from the page. Once successfully, a colorful three-ball icon will show up at the top right top toolbox.
6. Click the icon, it will show you a list full of available download options. Tap your mouse on one and an arrow icon will appear in the right corner of it. Click it.
   Note: To make sure to download the complete video, it is recommended to select the one with the largest size.
   
7. Then, you can choose “Quick download”, “Download”, and “Download&Convert” options on the new list according to your needs.
   
8. If it asks you to select download method, tap on “Use browser”.
   Note: When the file is large, it only requires users to use the companion app. Therefore, this way is more suitable for downloading small videos or clips.
   

How to Download a Twitter Video Online

If you want to download download Twitter video without app, there are countless online video downloaders available for you. As we mentioned before, ssstwitter.com is a great free online Twitter video downloader. But there is no entrance to connect to the original page after completing a download, which is not convenience enough.

At final, we found twittervideodownloader.com is a superior online service, which makes fast respond to the pasted URL. It is easy to use and offers different quality options for people to choose. Unlike the software, this online service only supports downloading video from Twitter and can only download one video at a time.

Steps on how to videos from Twitter online

1. Open a browser.
2. Visit Twitter, copy the URL of a video.
3. Then move to https://twittervideodownloader.com/.
   
4. Pate the URL into the URL filed, click “Download”.
5. On the analyzing result, tap on the“Download Video” option of the according resolution you want.
   
6. On the new page with the playing video, click “three-dot” icon and then select “Download” button to save the video.

How to Download a Twitter Video on iPhone

If you are accustomed to use mobile phones to watch videos online and save them, AnySave is an excellent video downloader for iPhone users. It supports downloading videos from popular websites, such as Twitter, Instagram, etc. It offers various skins for users to make a preferred design. However, if you want to make unlimited downloads without ads, you need to upgrade to its pro video for higher speed and higher resolution.

Besides common-used downloaders, there also are some effective file manager apps that can download Twitter videos, including Documents app and iOS shortcut.

Steps on how to save videos from twitter on iPhone via AnySave

1. Get AnySave from the APP Store on your computer, and open it.
2. Move to Twitter, find the video that you want to save, click the Share icon on the bottom right corner and then select “Copy Link” on the expanding sheet.
   
3. Back to AnySave, tap on “Paste from Clipboard” to paste the URL. Or you can also manually paste the URL into the blank filed.
4. Touch on “Save” button to start the downloading process. Once done, click the box icon on the upper right corner to see it.
   

How to Download a Twitter Video on Android

For Android, Twitter Video Downloader app is dedicated to download Twitter videos. That is to say, if you want videos from other websites, you need to switch help for other tools. Back to the app, it downloads videos quickly and supports batch downloading. Besides, it is designed with a built-in video player to enjoy the videos directly.

Steps on how to save videos from Twitter on Android

1. Download and install the software on your phone.
   
2. Open Twitter, move to the Tweet that contains your favorite video.
3. Tap on share icon, select “Share Tweet via” and then select the app – “Twitter Video Downloader”.
4. On the opened downloader app, paste the URL at the top empty box.
5. Click Download button.

How to Download a Video from Twitter DMs

DMs are short for direct messages, which allow you to communicate with others in texts, images and videos on Twitter. So, when you received fancy videos in you DM, how do you download videos from Twitter DMs?

The steps to download a video from Twitter DM are approximately similar to download tweet videos, the crucial part is to copy the URL of the DM video and paste it to a workable downloader. However, since videos from DM are high encrypted, it is harder than downloading normal videos. After testing, we found an effective tool called TwiDropper that can help you make it easily.

Steps on how to download a video from Twitter DM

1. Open TwiDropper through a browser.
2. Click on “DM” on the main interface.
3. Tap on Log in button. If you haven’t log in your account before, it will take a while to certificate your identify step by step.
4. Then select “Authorize app” button.
5. Upon entering your account, it can detect all videos from your Message and display them on the page.
6. It offers “HD”, “SD” and “LD” quality options for you to choose.
7. Click “Download” to save them on your device.
   

Conclusion

The most comprehensive methods on how to download a Twitter video on computer, iPhone and Android are included on this article. Compared to free methods with web-based extension or online downloader, the desktop software is more recommended because it not only shortens the download time to get the HD high-quality videos in various formats, but also enables downloading videos from YouTube, Instagram, Spotify, Youku, and many other popular or small media websites.