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.
Attaching images in Spoke:
In a message, 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.
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.
If you don't have control of the linked website, you can create an intermediate page that redirects to the destination page using a refresh tag. Then, you can add meta tags to the intermediate page.