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So what are they doing, technically, that makes it hard for the twitter app to display an image inline? That URL just points to an image, so I'm not sure what b
by psychotik 14y ago
So what are they doing, technically, that makes it hard for the twitter app to display an image inline? That URL just points to an image, so I'm not sure what broke here.
- jmathai 14y agoTwitter has an existing standard that allows them to easily discover what image to embed. It's called Twitter Cards and Instagram had the markup for it but apparently removed it. It's unfortunate because any site can use Twitter Cards to have their content displayed well in Tweets. So in my mind it's the right approach for a network as large as Twitter. Facebook has similar tags. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards
- psychotik 14y agoThanks. Most media sites have Open Graph tags - I wonder why Twitter didn't just reuse those. I understand they're from a competitor but they are somewhat standard. All these proprietary tags add unnecessary overhead to developers and bloat to pages. Sigh!