Twitter is a microblogging service that lets users post "tweets" of up to 140 characters.
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Twitter card [summary_large_image] not displaying image
I have set up a series of Twitter cards for my website.
The type of twitter card is [summary_large_image].
The meta-information included in the of my webpage is:
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What are some good feeds/blogs/twitter accounts to follow if I want to learn more about web development?
Who are some of the big names out there (besides Jeff Atwood/@codinghorror, of course) that I should be following as a resource if I want to stay on top of what's new as well commentary on what exists?
Please consider simply editing this question,…
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Web marketing: tangible advantages of being on Twitter?
Could someone explain me what could be an advnatage of being on Twitter for a company website?
Except the fact that it's on fashion right now. :)
I'm asking because on so many site I find the "little bird" with the words "FOLLOW us on Twitter".
Cool…
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(How) Could I import twitter posts as annotations in Google Analytics?
A site I maintain tweets every time a blog post is published.
Since the editors of the site have gone a bit mad with the ability to change the apparent date a blog post was published (back-dating as a layout tool), the twitter stream is the easiest…
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Easiest way to automatically update Twitter & Facebook when I update a wordpress blog
I'm running a self-hosted version of wordpress, so plugins are an option that is available. I'm wondering what the best way to have my Twitter and Facebook accounts automatically update whenever I add a new post to my blog.
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Where do I get the standard, tiny Facebook and Twitter icons?
I've seen a lot of sites with tiny 't' and 'f' logos for Facebook and Twitter. They're pretty common, but the only images I can find available are for paid icon sets.
Are people really using custom icons for these or are Facebook and Twitter…
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Share on: FB, Tweet, Digg, Linkedin, Delicious, My mother, ... it's just on fashion, or of some real value?
Nowadays your site is not in fashion if you don't show at least a couple of share buttons like these:
Is this just fashion, or do people actually get something good out of it?
When I say "something good" I mostly mean something that you could…
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Marketplace to buy Templates for Twitter Bootstrap framework?
Are there any sites where I could buy a site template designed in Twitter Bootstrap (so that it's easy to modify)?
I'm working on a site redesign and I think finding a template that looks close enough and modifying it is an economical way to go.…
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Are twitter backlinks counted
We've recently had our website tweeted by a couple of bigish media outlets 0.5m+ followers, some of the links are our direct url, and some are t.co urls.
From an seo point of view a link on their site would have been preferable, but i was wandering…
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Twitter Product Preview on Tweets
I just saw that twitter can also preview the products as it is on below Tweet:
http://twitter.com/#!/gillcleeren/status/131640082397528065
In this case, it is an Amazon product.
I was wondering how we can enable this for our website? Do we have…
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How to pass a url with appended # section to Twitter?
Is possible to send URLs with "#" selector to Twitter ?
In other terms, can I generate a short url pointing to a specific section in my webpage ?
I've tried to pass the url but Twitter interpret what is after "#" selector as a twitter user.
I've…
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How do I implement "share on Twitter" for photos on my website?
I have a "share on Twitter" button on my website that allows users to easily share a tweet with the web page. The page features a photo, and we would really like to have users tweet the photo itself out.
Is it possible to build "tweet this photo"…
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Twitter share link: how to properly implement counter when using a URL shortener?
I've implemented a share-URL-popup for Twitter but I think sometimes text + URL will not fit in to the 140 allowed chars of Twitter:
"https://twitter.com/intent/tweet" +
"?text=" + encodeURIComponent("long text here") +
"&url=" +…
user12370
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Content from a domain I used to own is appearing in my twitter feed
I had an old domain with a WordPress setup hosted by GoDaddy. I changed the business name and moved everything over to a new site, new domain, and new host a couple of years ago. I let the old domain expire.
It was recently purchased by someone for…
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Creating a "presentable"/filtered twitter profile widget
I would like to include a subset of tweets I make on my professional web development site.
Now, twitter provides two applicable widgets:
a profile widget and a search widget
Unfortunately, the profile widget shows everything I tweet (including…
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