# Customize the image shown on Twitter previews?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/customize-the-image-shown-on-twitter-previews/118803
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [5월 27, 2019, 6:05오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customize-the-image-shown-on-twitter-previews/118803 "2019-05-27T18:05:30Z")
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### Author: ![Chris\_Holdgraf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chris_holdgraf/32/123499_2.png) [@Chris\_Holdgraf](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Chris_Holdgraf)
#### Post date: [5월 27, 2019, 6:05오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customize-the-image-shown-on-twitter-previews/118803/1 "2019-05-27T18:05:30Z")

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We’ve had a few users on our Discourse site ask whether we can change the preview image that’s shown on Twitter cards when a Discourse link is shared on twitter. Specifically, folks would prefer if their avatar image _isn’t_ shown next to the preview. For example, I just tried sharing a post and the image that pops up is the avatar of the last person to post.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/1/117cb24bc8c71878113c1db5c1379bbbe3cada2e.png)

I’ve looked around, but can’t seem to figure out how to change this - is it possible to configure Discourse to use a different rule (e.g. just display the image of the site logo) for posts on Social media? Alternatively is this something that users could control themselves? (e.g., a setting that says “don’t use my image outside of this site”)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [5월 27, 2019, 7:02오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customize-the-image-shown-on-twitter-previews/118803/2 "2019-05-27T19:02:50Z")

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If sharing a post or topic make sure the post or topic has a large-ish image in it. That is the primary and most obvious way to control this.

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### Author: ![Chris\_Holdgraf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chris_holdgraf/32/123499_2.png) [@Chris\_Holdgraf](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Chris_Holdgraf)
#### Post date: [5월 27, 2019, 7:30오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customize-the-image-shown-on-twitter-previews/118803/3 "2019-05-27T19:30:46Z")

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Ah, I see! Following your comment, I just tried adding an image for the " twitter summary large image" setting, and this seems to have worked for overriding the avatar in the image. I _think_ this fixes it for us…though please do let me know if I’m not using something as it’s intended 🙂

> <https://twitter.com/choldgraf/status/1133092343114919936>

Also just a note for others that it seems like this change only propagates to posts made _after_ the change in “settings”

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [6월 26, 2019, 7:30오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customize-the-image-shown-on-twitter-previews/118803/4 "2019-06-26T19:30:54Z")

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