Twitter Sharing

AperturePlus

Please would someone tell me how to share a thumbnail and link on Twitter?

At the moment, if I share to Twitter, all I get is a link with no thumbnail.

Thanks

rainforest1155

Looking at my Twitter, there are no thumbnails for any links posted by someone. For certain photos, like the ones posted via Twitter's own photo service, you can click to view a preview of the photo directly in your Twitter stream. But to my knowledge, that's only available for services that Twitter added this for specifically.

I'm not a heavy Twitter user, so I'm just posting my 2 cents. Maybe someone else can chime in on this as well.

AperturePlus

Thanks Sebastian. I am not a huge Twitter user either, but I have seen images embedded into Tweets, but that might be from Instagram. Maybe someone else can help out?

urbanmoon

I AM a huge twitter user and not being able to share with a thumbnail preview for people to see makes me not share at all (which is BAD!). People want to be fed visual treats instantly, they don't want to have to click and not having a visual RIGHT there in the tweet means that most people won't even bother clicking through to see. So what's the point?

leftquark

When we share to twitter we're giving them the description (the text) and the image file (the thumbnail), should they wish to use it, but it's up to them to display it. You can see it in the source code:

Example:

        <meta name="twitter:card" content="gallery"/>
        <meta name="twitter:url" content="BLAH"/>
        <meta name="twitter:title" content="Aaron Meyers"/>
        <meta name="twitter:description" content="Photos I need to upload"/>
        <meta name="twitter:image0" content="MY_IMG1"/>
        <meta name="twitter:image1" content="MY_IMG2"/>
        <meta name="twitter:image2" content="MY_IMG3"/>
        <meta name="twitter:image3" content="MY_IMG4"/>

urbanmoon

I'm not seeing any of that in the code. I just see not much more than a direct link to the image on my site, but maybe I'm missing something.

Not having a visual way to share my photos on Twitter means I am not driving traffic back to my site as I should be. There has got to be a way to make this possible, it happens when I post to twitter from my Fine Art America site, but this SmugMug is my main site, I need to be able to easily drive traffic to it through the most popular social media platforms.

:-/

leftquark wrote: »

When we share to twitter we're giving them the description (the text) and the image file (the thumbnail), should they wish to use it, but it's up to them to display it. You can see it in the source code:

Example:

        <meta name="twitter:card" content="gallery"/>
        <meta name="twitter:url" content="BLAH"/>
        <meta name="twitter:title" content="Aaron Meyers"/>
        <meta name="twitter:description" content="Photos I need to upload"/>
        <meta name="twitter:image0" content="MY_IMG1"/>
        <meta name="twitter:image1" content="MY_IMG2"/>
        <meta name="twitter:image2" content="MY_IMG3"/>
        <meta name="twitter:image3" content="MY_IMG4"/>

leftquark

Can you run the URL through the twitter validator and see if it spits out any errors? I took your photo: http://www.urbanmoon.ca/Cities/Hamilton-Canada/Hamilton-Black-White/i-vC4PCWz and it generated the following:



What links are you trying to share?