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GitHub now supports Twitter Cards

79 points by remi 14y ago

danielamitay 14y ago
Interestingly enough, my participation on Twitter was spurred and continually maintained via OSS and GitHub. So this is really welcome on my end (although I wouldn't mind extra info such as watchers and forks). It is a bit weird though: the displayed image is the project owner's profile image, which doesn't seem directly relevant, and seems a bit out of place.
- benatkin 14y ago
  Yeah, the message to create an account is probably unnecessary more than half the time people will be reading these.
thurn 14y ago
It's a shame that Twitter decided to roll their own solution to this problem instead of using schema.org or other existing semantic markup. I'd be interested in knowing what didn't work for them about the existing standards.
- sushimako 14y ago
  FWIW, they do support some Open Graph markup as a fallback [0] [0] https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards (last headline, no anchors...)
  - natrius 14y ago
    FYI, element IDs work as anchors. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards#open-graph https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards#open-graph
- jbigelow76 14y ago
  >I'd be interested in knowing what didn't work for them about the existing standards. Probably their lack of control of it.
- bergie 14y ago
  Agreed. oEmbed (http://oembed.com/ http://oembed.com/) would make cards work with any service that wants to provide a "card".
e-dard 14y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but do people actually see Twitter Cards in general? I mean, how many regular Twitter users actually use the web interface to interact with Twitter? I don't know anyone that doesn't use a third-party client. And, given Twitter's clear desire to restrict 3rd party client API access, in order to get more eyeballs on more easily monetizable web-pages, Twitter Cards are never going to be seen by many users.
- eli 14y ago
  Yes, a lot of people do use the Twitter web interface. An I would imagine that number will only go up as Twitter keeps adding features to it while also squeezing third party apps.
  - ceejayoz 14y ago
    Not to mention abandoning some of the official desktop apps. Twitter for Mac is abandonware at this point.
- jbigelow76 14y ago
  I see card data in the native Android Twitter app.
- gtaylor 14y ago
  Purely anecdotal, but the web interface is probably my most frequent means of interacting with Twitter. It does what it needs to do for me.
- ramayac 14y ago
  Oh, I do. I love getting a little bit of extra info and context before clicking on a URL. And as someone posted before, it also works really well in the Twitter Android client.
- recursive 14y ago
  I've never used any client other than the web interface.
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matthuggins 14y ago
Is there an example of this working somewhere?
- dpearson 14y ago
  Any tweet with a Github link shows a card when viewed through the web interface. Here's one of mine: https://twitter.com/dpearson_/status/288415765223321600 https://twitter.com/dpearson_/status/288415765223321600
steeve 14y ago
Although I have to say I like schema.org, now we have: - oEmbed - Facebook OpenGraph - schema.org - Twitter Cards WTF.
sideproject 14y ago
What's GitHub up to? They've been releasing cool features more frequently this week it seems. Was this part of the plan? Developers decided to finish their tasks almost at the same time? What are we going to see tomorrow? It's exciting. :) Features please!

79 points by remi 14y ago

Interestingly enough, my participation on Twitter was spurred and continually maintained via OSS and GitHub. So this is really welcome on my end (although I wouldn't mind extra info such as watchers and forks). It is a bit weird though: the displayed image is the project owner's profile image, which doesn't seem directly relevant, and seems a bit out of place.

benatkin 14y ago
Yeah, the message to create an account is probably unnecessary more than half the time people will be reading these.

thurn 14y ago

It's a shame that Twitter decided to roll their own solution to this problem instead of using schema.org or other existing semantic markup. I'd be interested in knowing what didn't work for them about the existing standards.

sushimako 14y ago
FWIW, they do support some Open Graph markup as a fallback [0] [0] https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards (last headline, no anchors...)
- natrius 14y ago
  FYI, element IDs work as anchors. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards#open-graph https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards#open-graph
jbigelow76 14y ago
>I'd be interested in knowing what didn't work for them about the existing standards. Probably their lack of control of it.
bergie 14y ago
Agreed. oEmbed (http://oembed.com/ http://oembed.com/) would make cards work with any service that wants to provide a "card".

e-dard 14y ago

Maybe I'm missing something, but do people actually see Twitter Cards in general? I mean, how many regular Twitter users actually use the web interface to interact with Twitter? I don't know anyone that doesn't use a third-party client. And, given Twitter's clear desire to restrict 3rd party client API access, in order to get more eyeballs on more easily monetizable web-pages, Twitter Cards are never going to be seen by many users.

eli 14y ago
Yes, a lot of people do use the Twitter web interface. An I would imagine that number will only go up as Twitter keeps adding features to it while also squeezing third party apps.
- ceejayoz 14y ago
  Not to mention abandoning some of the official desktop apps. Twitter for Mac is abandonware at this point.
jbigelow76 14y ago
I see card data in the native Android Twitter app.
gtaylor 14y ago
Purely anecdotal, but the web interface is probably my most frequent means of interacting with Twitter. It does what it needs to do for me.
ramayac 14y ago
Oh, I do. I love getting a little bit of extra info and context before clicking on a URL. And as someone posted before, it also works really well in the Twitter Android client.
recursive 14y ago
I've never used any client other than the web interface.

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matthuggins 14y ago

Is there an example of this working somewhere?

dpearson 14y ago
Any tweet with a Github link shows a card when viewed through the web interface. Here's one of mine: https://twitter.com/dpearson_/status/288415765223321600 https://twitter.com/dpearson_/status/288415765223321600

steeve 14y ago

Although I have to say I like schema.org, now we have: - oEmbed - Facebook OpenGraph - schema.org - Twitter Cards WTF.

sideproject 14y ago

What's GitHub up to? They've been releasing cool features more frequently this week it seems. Was this part of the plan? Developers decided to finish their tasks almost at the same time? What are we going to see tomorrow? It's exciting. :) Features please!