Overview

Media may be attached and retrieved for Direct Messages through authenticated calls with app-user authorization.

Direct Messages with an image will contain a media object with relevant details, check our Twitter data objects dictionary for more details here.
 

Uploading and attaching media (images, GIFs, video) to a Direct Message.

Media for Direct Messages upload & attachment guide
 

Retrieving Direct Message media

For media in Direct Messages media_url is the same https URL as media_url_https and must be accessed by signing a request with the user’s access token using OAuth 1.0A.

It is not possible to directly embed these images in a web page.

Media in Direct Messages retrieval guide