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I like that now we have "apple" tags, and "twitter" tags everywhere. Maybe cocacola and mcdonalds should buy a tag too , because, why not. At least facebook had
by jdrc 5y ago
I like that now we have "apple" tags, and "twitter" tags everywhere. Maybe cocacola and mcdonalds should buy a tag too , because, why not. At least facebook had the decency to call their tags "open graph"
- jeroenhd 5y agoI'm not so sure about this one. There's not much open about opengraph other than that Facebook published the for wat they want to use. Everybody else copied it, but Facebook decides what does and doesn't make it into the standard. At least Twitter has the decency to mark their proprietary standards as proprietary.
- jdrc 5y agowhy didnt twitter just use og: ? it 's the exact same content. they create tag pollution without thinking
- hombre_fatal 5y agoFWIW, Twitter does fall back to OpenGraph tags: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/cards/guides/getting-started https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/c... (scroll to bottom) For example, maybe you want to specify a Twitter username for your Twitter card but for all other OpenGraph consumers you want different attribution. You may also want to serve a specialized crop of the image to Twitter vs other consumers since they all display differently (Facebook doesn't crop the preview iirc but Twitter does, so you may want to specialize the image for Twitter). It's not completely braindead that they let you specialize for Twitter.