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Originally Posted by Zen-
Hey,
I had problems trying to get twitter cards working on one of my wordpress sites. All the plugins I tried never put a thumbnail when posting on twitter. Any advice?
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Sure, I actually did a bit of testing with them as well. I wanted to see if I could post an animated gif AND have it display the card but that does not work, if you have a gif (or image I assume) it will not display the card.
I am using Yoast SEO on wordpress. It is what helps me make the nice cards. It takes a while messing around with it to figure it out because there is a lot of stuff in there, but if you go into to social area add your twitter handle and it seems to do it all on it's own. I never knew it would even do that myself, I just found out by accident but so happy I did, lol.
Also, you can choose if you want to use the side pic or the larger above pic style in those options. One other thing I noticed is the card will not immediately display on twitter it takes about 20 seconds or so for it to show but then it always shows. I guess it's reading the info or getting the image.
I see a lot less RT's and likes on the card tweets than the gif / image tweets, however, there are a lot more link clicks. So it's a trade off of sorts.