# Missing thumbnail for Twitter videos

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-thumbnail-for-twitter-videos/181734>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 3, 2021, 9:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-thumbnail-for-twitter-videos/181734 "2021-03-03T09:14:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Terrapop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Terrapop](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Terrapop)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2021, 9:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-thumbnail-for-twitter-videos/181734/1 "2021-03-03T09:14:29Z")

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In our community, many share Tweets containing a video.

For most other videos from third-party sources, topic thumbnails are generated, but not for Video-Tweets.

Thumbnails are available in the video object:

> **[X Developer Platform - X](https://docs.x.com/overview)**
>
> Build, analyze, and innovate with X's real-time global data. Access posts, users, trends, and more through modern APIs with flexible pay-per-usage pricing.

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**Author:** ![Terrapop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Terrapop](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Terrapop)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 12:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-thumbnail-for-twitter-videos/181734/2 "2021-05-26T12:55:16Z")

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Anybody having some input here?

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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:** [January 17, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-thumbnail-for-twitter-videos/181734/3 "2022-01-17T20:11:57Z")

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Here’s a tweet with a video

> <https://twitter.com/system76/status/1483111178524147713>

I don’t see a problem?