{"id":4513,"date":"2017-01-18T20:39:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T20:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=4513"},"modified":"2017-01-18T20:47:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T20:47:30","slug":"wordpress-twitter-card-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wordpress-twitter-card-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress twitter card idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little blue sky thinking, or borrowing some ideas from @davewiner & @mrkrndvs<\/em><\/p>\n

I wonder if a WordPress plugin could ape pngWriter and create images for twitter cards with the text from the excerpt on the image used by twitter.<\/em>
\n Like this, but with less fireworks.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve been thinking about twitter again.<\/p>\n

I think I’d have preferred twitter to be just text rather than being expanded to include all the media and ‘twitter cards’. I’d rather the reading flow would be twitter for short stuff and link to more visual or longer material out on your blog. That would perhaps make reading a little deeper and avoid the problem of folk just seeing the main point of an article and reacting to that 1<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n

But that cat left the bag a while ago. Now when I look at my twitter stream it is full of images. I occasionally use OneShot<\/a> to grab and crop out interesting bits of text to share and surmount the 140 char limitation too.<\/p>\n

I am not sure if this is a great idea<\/p>\n

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this buffoon (blush) wonders if blog post with text as a featured image( twitter:image meta ) and in body would be better?<\/p>\n

— john johnston (@johnjohnston) November 27, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n