TweetShot — last updated 17 September 2026

TweetShot is an image editor that runs entirely inside your browser. This policy explains exactly what it does and does not do with your data.

What the extension accesses, and why

Access	Why	Where it goes
Photos you choose to edit	To display and edit them in the editor	Stays in your browser's memory. Never uploaded.
The composer page (x.com, twitter.com)	To add the “Edit photo” button, detect attached images, and put the edited image back into the tweet	Stays on the page. No page content is transmitted.
Browser local storage	To remember your editor preferences (brush size, theme, saved looks) and, in the full-page editor, an unfinished edit so it survives a reload	Stays on your device. Never transmitted.
Clipboard (write only)	To copy the edited image when you press Copy, or as a fallback when the composer cannot be reached	Written only when you ask for it. Never read.
Right-click menu	To add one item, “Edit this image with TweetShot”, on X/Twitter pages	Local only.

What TweetShot never does

• No analytics, telemetry, tracking pixels or crash reporting.
• No servers of ours, no analytics and no tracking. Nothing you edit is transmitted anywhere.
• The only network activity possible is your browser re-reading an image you explicitly asked to edit — a right-clicked image, or one supplied by URL. That read goes to the site you are already on, and sends nothing.
• No reading of your messages, timeline, direct messages, credentials or browsing history.
• No remote code. All JavaScript and all fonts are bundled inside the extension.
• No advertising, and no data sharing with third parties.

Fonts

The editor's typefaces (Archivo and IBM Plex, both open source under the SIL Open Font License) are bundled as files inside the extension and loaded with the browser's FontFace API. They are not fetched from Google Fonts or any other server at runtime.

Metadata

When you save an edited image, it is re-encoded by your browser. This removes the original file's EXIF metadata, including GPS location information. That is deliberate — but be aware it applies to any image you export.

Permissions explained

• storage — remember your preferences and (optionally) an unfinished edit locally.
• clipboardWrite — copy the edited image when you ask for it.
• contextMenus — one right-click item on X/Twitter pages.
• Host access to x.com and twitter.com — required to work inside the composer. The extension runs on no other website.

Children's privacy

TweetShot does not collect data from anyone, including children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the “last updated” date above will change and the new version will ship with the extension update.

Contact

Questions about this policy: open an issue on GitHub.