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I remember back in the old days when Twitter got a lot of flack for preventing Instagram link previews. EDIT: I got the order wrong, see replies.

• WickyNilliams 4y ago
  Wasn't it the other way around? Instagram disallowed previews on twitter
  • cldellow 4y ago
    That's my recollection, too. I think Instagram wasn't annotating their pages with either OpenGraph metadata or Twitter card metadata, and so you got a bland link vs a rich preview. It seems like Instagram _were_ publishing og:image tags at one point, but then removed it. See, for example, this 2019 reddit post [1]. Instagram then announced a change to this policy in December of 2021 [2] and now annotates with og:image again. [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/dn2wsw/saving_an_original_imageogimage_is_gone_now/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/dn2wsw/saving_an... [2]: https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/introducing-better-previews-of-your-content-outside-of-instagram https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/introducing-b...
  • xnxn 4y ago
    You're right. Here's a decade-old TechCrunch article about this: https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/05/kevin-systrom-on-pulling-twitter-cards-integration-we-want-images-viewed-on-instagram-com/ https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/05/kevin-systrom-on-pulling-t...