Discourse’s Onebox feature is not working as expected with Twitter replies. john_mardlin reported that links to reply tweets show the original tweet instead, and also lack profile pictures. codinghorror suggested that the issue is due to missing Twitter API key credentials in the site settings. sam confirmed this and noted that the default handling without keys should be improved. techAPJ has since fixed the issue, making the API version and no-API version of Twitter Onebox almost identical.
Onebox tweets are much less awesome on our forum than this one.
Specifically, links to a reply will show the original tweet instead, and also lack profile pictures.
We’re up to date on v1.4.0.beta8 +35.
This is how it appears here:
https://twitter.com/JohnMardlin/status/631833868081958912
This is a test post in a hidden section of our forum: Onebox shows original tweet instead of linked reply tweet
Contact me if you would like access to view it.
Do you have the Twitter API key credentials entered in site settings? If you don’t the one boxing will be a bit weird.
Yeah … I just confirmed and you are missing both:
“twitter consumer key” and “twitter consumer secret” without this our use of twitter api is heavily restricted.
Note, this is on @techAPJ’s list, our default handling sans key should be better
It did seem odd that the styling of publicly available data needed keys.
Twitter does not allow any api access unless you use an api key.
Done! 
https://github.com/discourse/onebox/commit/80753d8bc4a7f9f981655cc8d01d87490011f16d
Now the api version and no-api version of Twitter onebox is almost identical! 
