Tweets not showing images?

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Hi,

I’m trying to understand why tweets won’t show the first image from my post. I suspect I’ve got a setting wrong somewhere, but I can’t figure it out.

To demonstrate, here is an original discourse post:

https://forum-test.blendernation.com/t/little-big-planet-sackboy/14

And here’s a tweet with a link to this post. It shows a placeholder image - not even my site logo.

Here’s a test I did with a link to another Discourse instance - as you can see it correctly features the first image.

Is there some settings magic I need to apply to get this to work?

On a related note, is there a way to change the card format to ‘Summary Card with Large Image’? Since we’re running a graphics-oriented community this would make sense for us.

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You must configure the twitter API keys in your site settings for this to work as I recall.

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Hmm, we haven’t done that on the Sketchfab forum, which shows the images correctly. My hunch is that I’ve misconfigured something else. Also, I think the only available Twitter settings are for authentication?

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The Twitter Card Validator is showing this warning for the linked post:

WARN:  The image URL https://forum-test.blendernation.com/uploads/default/optimized/1X/236bbbe9fa50f882fc710f078b22276a6cb3b974_1_690x483.jpg specified by the 'twitter:image' metatag may be restricted by the site's robots.txt file, which will prevent Twitter from fetching it.

Testing this meta topic however looks good on the validator.

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Okay, I can verify that fresh Discourse installs are not loading image previews on Twitter.

This was regressed 24 days ago in:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/0fd622e5d10cdbe9169cfce291729a5596b363eb

Should we revert this commit @codinghorror?

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Sure that seems fine. You might ping that user I think he posted here about it.

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Okay, that commit is now reverted. I couldn’t find Dan’s account here on meta, but I left the comment on PR.

Thanks for bringing this issue to our notice @bartv. :+1:

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Wow that’s very fast indeed! So can I now rebuild + test, or is there something else you guys need to do before this fix is available?

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You will have to wait for commit to land in tests-passed branch.

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The commit is now landed in tests-passed branch and I verified that the issue is fixed now.

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