I guess I don't have a firm grasp on the twitter card system yet.
Does twitter have an official way to create these cards or is it reliant on their automatically generated cards based on partnered URLs?
thanks @daualset. looks like you're a big music guy - i've been thinking about an audio based player card (like soundcloud's) but i'm not sure if i can really add much value there.
I pushed up auto support for itunes links (drop one in, Dewey attributes to iTunes and grabs artist/album info), and then you could upload a music video, but I wonder if you have any thoughts on being able to upload an mp3 and have that be playable in-line?
Wow, Sam. Really nice work - playing around with it as we speak.
Cards are the future - tool is really robust and helpful. Excited to see where you take this
thanks Ryan! I think so too, in one way or another. A big reason I wanted to build this is to get more deep linking out there. I hate opening modal web views in Twitter. I hope the future of mobile involves everyone realizing that we all win when our apps play nice together!
Seems like your team is executing against more of a long term vision of what cards can be cross platform - heady stuff! I think I'll stick with Twitter, but I see a lot of opportunities in Twitter Cards - for ads, lead gen cards, etc.
Andy, here's a quick piece. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/car... Twitter aims to create cards when the crawler comes across a web page with the respective meta tags - informing the crawler of what structured information it should take. different attributes for different cards. ie product vs photo.
If the page contains no tags, then no card can be created. Brands, individuals and content sites can validate their site url once to get up and running
yeah, Ryans got it. Cards are rendered by meta tags on the linked site that get crawled at time of tweet.
So if you're not a developer (or at least html comfortable), or you don't control the site you link to, you're out of luck.
The thing I think I'm most excited about is the Media Player (i.e. video) card. There's no native video upload feature for Twitter, so Dewey fills that gap by taking your video, transcoding, hosting, and rendering via a static page that has the proper meta tags for a player card.
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Cards are the future - tool is really robust and helpful. Excited to see where you take this