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7 years 11 months ago - 7 years 11 months ago #58115 by webdevtim
I set the Open graph image which Facebook and Google+ picks up, but Twitter No loner seems to recognize it. I know that there has been a blow out between Twitter and Facebook but I didn't think that should affect the use of Open Graph tags.

Alex, do you know anything about this and could it be the reason that images are no loner appearing in Twitter posts?

Here are the relevant tags:
<meta property="og:image" content="https://www.911truthoutreach.org/images/socialmedia/facebook/left-forum-2016-fb-banner.jpg"/>

<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary"/>

<meta name="twitter:title" content="Truth Activists Sponsor Six Deep State Panels at 2016 Left Forum Conference in New York City"/>

<meta name="twitter:description" content="Left Forum convenes the largest annual conference of a broad spectrum of left and progressive intellectuals, activists, academics, organizations and the interested public...."/>
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7 years 11 months ago #58116 by alzander
Twitter doesn't, and hasn't ever, used Open Graph tags. That's why we set the Twitter card tags, like you mention above. There's also the following tag on that page:
<meta name="twitter:image" content="https://www.911truthoutreach.org/images/socialmedia/facebook/left-forum-2016-fb-banner.jpg"/>
With that said, when I run the URL through Twitter's URL validator, it seems to pick up the image and other tags and show a proper preview:
cards-dev.twitter.com/validator

It's possible the cache for Twitter was just old and needed to be updated, which their validator does (I believe). Hopefully, it works now. If not, there's not much more I can think to do as the validator does show the right data. It may be something you need to contact Twitter about.

Alex
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7 years 11 months ago - 7 years 11 months ago #58118 by webdevtim
Again, I should be used to that by now. But I just tried again and I only got text no image.

Depends on how I post. If I use the social media plugin with the bar appearing in the bottom left corner and I select "Create Post" I get an image, albeit a cropped version of the larger image that Facebook uses. If I use the Tweet button, then what gets posted has no image. You mention that there is
<meta name="twitter:image" content="https://www.911truthoutreach.org/images/socialmedia/facebook/left-forum-2016-fb-banner.jpg"/>
How could I have that changed to
<meta name="twitter:image" content="https://www.911truthoutreach.org/images/socialmedia/twitter/left-forum-2016-twitter-banner.jpg"/>
so that I can properly size the image?

I have to be able to set a twitter image, because the image that is sent along now isn't acceptable. When I first started using the Easy Tags, twitter displayed a full width image. Now twitter is displaying the postage stamp sized cropped version of the image of what used to be a full width image, yet if I were to post a tweet from twitter, twitter would display a full width full height image. Is twitter trying to discourage websites from using their service?
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7 years 11 months ago #58144 by alzander
Unfortunately, we don't have support for individually setting Twitter image tags yet. If an Open Graph tag is set, we just shadow that tag to the proper Twitter image format. We're planning to add support for overriding Twitter tags later this year.

In the next release (likely 7.0.1, which should be out later this month), we'll be supporting the option to update some of the default tags we set. Currently, JFBConnect always tells Twitter to use the "summary" card. I think if that gets changed to "summary_large_image" card, it will do what you're looking for. For more details on that card type, see:
Invalid consumer key/secret in configuration

Hopefully that update will get you fixed up.

Thanks,
Alex
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7 years 11 months ago - 7 years 11 months ago #58146 by webdevtim
Thanks Alex, what I am doing now is adding the folowing to the bottom of the articles
<meta name="twitter:image" content="https://www.911truthoutreach.org/images/socialmedia/twitter/left-forum-twitter-banner.jpg"/>
and Twitter is picking it up. The image is the twitter specified 400px X 400px pixel size so that it gets converted to a thumbnail placed to the left of the text. I think if I use the 440px X 220px image size, Twitter will automatically place the image at the top full width with the text underneath.

I will look forward to the update to the "summary_large_image" card. I will just use the kluge I described above until then.
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