Twitter just followed what everyone else was doing, and not even correctly, they had to have their own way. FB was among the first social sites crawling the li

Twitter just followed what everyone else was doing, and not even correctly, they had to have their own way. FB was among the first social sites crawling the links and creating a thumbnail with crucial info. When OG tags were introduced (by them nonetheless!), FB started honoring them. Twitter some year later finally decided to do the card thing and thought that skipping OG and having their own syntax under meta would be best way.