When I post a direct twitter/x link in my forum it is not correctly unfurling. When I post the exact same link here on the discourse forum it is working. My installed version: 3.6.0.beta1-dev (7c34595144) Correctly Unfurled Example on discourse.org forums https://x.com/ryanhallyall/status/1961057800693453214 Screenshot of my site incorrectly unfurled [image]

[image] WolfpackFan: I followed the directions to create a twitter consumer ID and secret (from the developers.x.com portal) using the “free” tier. I think that’s the problem [image]Configuring X login and rich embeds for Discourse :warning: In order for rich embeds to work properly, a Basic plan or higher for X Dev is mandatory. Rich embeds will not work with the Free X Dev plan. But I agree the default experience could be improved so you don’t end up with a blank onebox when twitter settings not configured

I have NOT. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction!

I followed the directions to create a twitter consumer ID and secret (from the developers.x.com portal) using the “free” tier. When I use these generated values and add them in the discourse settings as shown below I am still getting the same incorrectly unfurled twitter post as described in my original post. Note that my discourse instance is a self-hosted on an AWS EC2 instance. [image]

Oh my gosh.. egg on my face. I failed to read the first paragraph of the documentation with the giant warning sign! How kind of you not to scold me! I appreciate the prompt helpfulness provided here in the forum.

[image] Moin: I agree the default experience could be improved so you don’t end up with a blank onebox when twitter settings not configured Yes, perhaps it should default to just the link if it isn’t configured.

I am loving the use of the term “unfurling”. We refer to oneboxing here for that functionality. I’ve added the #onebox tag and also alerted the staff experience team to look into how the UI might be improved to make it easier to understan what’s going on in a case like this. I believe there are other cases when the onebox displays an error message in the composer if it won’t be able to create a proper onebox. Maybe that could be a solution here as well. Or as you say just display it as a simple link if it’s not going to onebox correctly. [image] WolfpackFan: Correctly Unfurled Example on discourse.org forums https://x.com/ryanhallyall/status/1961057800693453214 Looks like in your example you did not leave a line break before the URL to be oneboxed. Here it is looking as expected. [image] Ryan Hall, Y’all @ryanhallyall We're tracking a new potential system in the Atlantic. Nothing to lose sleep over. pic.x.com/mnUsDeyOOg[image][image] 1:26 PM - 28 Aug 2025 360 18

Twitter/X links not unfurling correctly

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) August 28, 2025, 1:57pm 2

Have you followed the steps in Configuring X login and rich embeds for Discourse?

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Twitter/X links not unfurling correctly

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