Twitter is one of the most popular social networks on the market today. We can access it both on the smartphone, through the app, and on the phone using its web version. Videos have become one of the strengths of the social network, with millions of users uploading videos to it. Some videos that on occasion may interest us.
Therefore, we want to download this video on our computer. Twitter does not give us a native way as such to download these videos on the computer. Although the reality is that there are several ways to achieve this. Therefore, we show you how it is possible.
Download videos using a web page
One of the simplest ways we have in this regard is to use a web page. There are several web pages that give us the possibility to download those videos that we have seen on Twitter and are interested in having on the computer. The first thing we have to do in this case is to enter the social network and find the tweet in which the aforementioned video is found. When we are in this tweet, we must click on the down arrow, which is in the upper right corner. There are several options, one of which is to copy the link.
Click on it, so that the URL of the video has been copied. So, we have to use one of the web pages that give us this possibility. The best option in this field is TwDown. Thanks to it, we will be able to download all the videos that we want to have seen on Twitter. To enter the web, you just have to access this link. The operation of the web is not too mysterious.
In it we have to paste the URL that we have copied on Twitter. Then, the web will see that there is a video in said message and the download will then begin. One of the advantages of the web is that we can choose the quality in which we want the video, in case there are several (not all videos allow this). We can also select the format in which we want it. Being MP4 possibly the most comfortable. In this simple way we can download the video to the computer without any problem.
Use an extension in the browser
For users using Google Chrome or Firefox as their browser, there are other ways. An extension can be used in the browser. Thanks to it, it will be possible to download these videos from Twitter. So it is another good option to keep in mind, that if many videos are to be downloaded, it can be much more comfortable for many users.
This extension has the name of Twitter Media Downloader. You can download it here in its version for Google Chrome. For those users who use Firefox on their Windows computer and want to use it, it can be downloaded from this link. There you just have to install it in the browser, so that it can be used with the desktop version of the social network at all times.
It will allow us to download all kinds of videos from Twitter, although some aspects must be taken into account. Since if we want to download many videos at once, or they are heavy content, it is possible that it will be downloaded in blocks. Which will make it take longer. But it is not usually something that makes the extension work worse. Although in these cases the extension usually asks to enter the ID of said videos, so that they can be downloaded.
But you will see that the operation of it is very simple. So you will have access to these Twitter videos on your computer in a really simple way. A good extension to consider if you use Google Chrome or Firefox.