Need to Format Twitter Posts

Well, what I was hoping is that I could update the image from the post from our website so that after posting everything from our website I could go to twitter and just update the image on the tweet to same image but uploaded directly to Twitter. I see that can't be done. I was also hoping that I could upload images to Twitter and get the Twitter link for that image and add that image to the {SCOpenGraph image=https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZM0pdcWkAIzZZ-.jpg} That way the tweet would be opened and the image displayed when others tweeted the article from the website. But I don't see a way to do that. You mean the Bernie Sanders team is is tweeting everything from their twitter account?

Actually that makes no difference. I get this as a link after posting the twitter image from the website: o.twimg.com/2/proxy.jpg?t=HBhkaHR0cHM6Ly...kzyOauXAazbF6Ww4hAV4, which is both image and link back information. but still the tweet arrives collapsed even with the image from twitter in tow.

I set an image in Twitter and then got the link to that image and used it as the {SCOpenGraph image=https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZM0pdcWkAIzZZ-.jpg} image and I posted the article with that Easy tag using the "Create Post" method and noticed that Twitter still displayed the tweet closed even though the image that was set from which the link was derived was displayed opened.

I guess what I don't understand is how to attach an image to a tweet. Is there a way to do that in JFBConnect? I guess I really have to better familiarize myself with the Twitter API.

Thanks Mel, I will read those documents and make any changes that those documents suggest, but I think I just have to tell people where I am at that unless we want to post directly to Twitter, that our tweets will arrive in collapsed form. Also others tweeting our articles to their Twitter account will also have those tweets arrive in collapsed form and that is simply the policy of twitter and until twitter changes that policy, there is nothing that can be done about it.

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Thanks so much Mel. I will read these two articles.

I will tell those that want me to make the posts to twitter from our URL understand that those kinds of posts arrive at twitter in their closed state and that only a change of policy by Twitter will change that behavior. Our only option is to post our tweets by hand. We can provide the Tweet button for our supporters to Tweet our articles to their accounts with the understanding that those Tweets will land on their Twitter account in the closed state. Once Opened the Tweets are as rich as Twitter allows.

One thing, Twitter allows up to four images to be connected to a Tweet. How would I add multiple images using Easy tags.

For adding a video, I would add tags like: {SCOpenGraph video.movie=link-to-movie}{SCOpenGraph video:actor=name-of-actor}, etc?

I am not sure how to add video to Twitter posts. I see the description of Media Entities at Invalid consumer key/secret in configuration , but I am not sure how to use these in JFBconnect. I know, more questions.

This is what is available for Twitter Cards:

twitter:player – HTTPS URL of player iframe – Used with player card

twitter:player:width – Width of iframe in pixels – Used with player card

twitter:player:height – Height of iframe in pixels – Used with player card

twitter:player:stream – URL to raw video or audio stream – Used with player card

Do we have Easy Tags for these? Twitter doesn't recognized the Open Graph tags for video. Would I use something like

{SCTwitterTweet player:width=1920}{SCTwitterTweet player:height=1050}{SCTwitterTweet player:stream=http://content.jwplatform.com/videos/MQ6z2tHb-NeeKXyma.mp4}{SCTwitterTweet player=http://content.jwplatform.com/libraries/A4cZR76S.js}

This would be the last question I have on this I think, because if I can include videos, our tweets will be pretty dynamic even it they are closed by default.

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OK, will try that.