Include an Image in a Message
You can include images with your messages to send event posters or other media to your contacts.
Note: Multimedia messages cost more to send than text-only messages. Ask your organization for guidelines and permission.
To include images with your messages:
- From a conversation, paste a URL between two square brackets, [ ]. For example:
[https://image-url.com/image-is-here]. - Write a message to be sent with the image. Any text before and after the bracketed URL is combined into a single message with the bracketed URL removed.
- Click Send.
Example:
Hey {firstName}, this is {texterFirstName} with ORGANIZATION. URGENT FACT. That is why we are organizing to X. Will you stand in solidarity and sign our pledge to Y? [https://i.imgur.com/d2DkMaZ.jpeg]
Size limitations
Cellular carriers have different limitations on MMS attachments. We recommend keeping attachment size below 600 KB for best results.
Size limitations for the top 4 US carriers are:
| Carrier | MMS attachment size |
| AT&T | 1.4 MB |
| Sprint | 1.4 MB |
| T-mobile | 0.675 MB |
| Verizon | 0.675 MB |
Media type limitations
MMS attachments may be of the following types:
- image/jpeg
- image/png
- image/gif
- video/3gpp
- video/mp4
Send an image with links
The SMS/MMS protocol, regardless of provider, does not support hyperlinked images. If you want to provide a link with an accompanying image, you can add meta tags for social media to the linked website itself, and then send the link. These tags let messaging applications show a preview of the linked content. For example, this is how YouTube link previews are displayed.