Some time ago Discourse stopped displaying the Twitter links properly as previews. I now only get an error message. It seems to work for you guys. Why ever! I am using the latest version. What could be the problem? Example at meta: [image] Stefan Homburg @SHomburg ++ EIL ++ Neuseelan…

I had this problem myself after trying to set this up today, and I happened to find this topic initially after searching and did not immediately see it mentioned in this topic yet; After searching other posts, for me, it had to do what the below linked posts say (use the elevated plan instead of the…

I am afraid this is not a bug. In the past we carried a “simple” twitter embedder that relied on certain magic to generate the onebox. This had way too many edge cases and resulted in very uneven results, often breaking. If any self hosters would like twitter embeds going forward, please follow: …

Thank you Sam But as I said, some time ago the function worked perfectly. Link in. Preview out. I don’t want to associate a Twitter account with my instance. Nor do I want to blindly nod off a developer contract and commit to Twitter for whatever. And I certainly don’t want to use Twitter as a log…

I hate this bullshit. [image] Update: I followed the instructions to the end and set everything up successfully. The tweets are still not displayed. Only the link is displayed.

Can you please confirm that you set both twitter consumer key and twitter consumer secret site settings and then tried to rebuild the HTML (post menu :gear: → Rebuild HTML button)? Sorry for the frustration, but trust me I tried my best in finding a workaround. The problem is that Twitter no longer…

Everything is set up correctly. As suggested, I also tried to rebuild the HTML view. Nevertheless, the link does not become a preview box. Older tweets that I have put into posts in the past are still displayed. (Without HTML Rebuild)

I just tested again with my Twitter keys and I confirm again that it works. All I did was to set the two site settings and rebuild the HTML. Then, the URL was rendered as a onebox. Can you please rebuild Twitter API keys and try again? Make sure you do not mix the key and the secret.

Hello, I tried my best. The API keys (consumer keys) have been renewed. The HTML rebuild function did nothing. Everything is the same. Only the link is displayed. Some output inside the error log would be great.

Thanks heaps, I discussed this with @mcwumbly as well Hoping we can add a warning to the admin dashboard when users are mistakenly on the essential plan, explaining the problem

Yeah! It works. :partying_face::partying_face::partying_face: [image] Have some problems to configure embed Twitter support I’ve found it ! You need to escalate your developer Twitter account from Essential to Elevated (free). And then it’s work like a charm. Speci…

Tweet preview is no longer working on my instance

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sam (Sam Saffron) September 13, 2022, 7:37am 4

I hear you, but you got to take this up with Twitter, they gave us no option here. Html hacking to figure out info was too fragile

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Tweet preview is no longer working on my instance

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