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why didnt twitter just use og: ? it 's the exact same content. they create tag pollution without thinking
by jdrc 5y ago
why 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.