No social media preview on Twitter?

[borkdude]

I posted the https://blog.michielborkent.nl/babashka-test-runner.html link to Twitter, but no social media preview appeared.

cc @jmglov

[jmglov]

Taking a look now.

[jmglov]

There are a few problems here:

• Your base template doesn't contain the social sharing meta tags. Compare to the latest base template from quickblog. You can fix this by running bb quickblog refresh-templates in your blog repo.
• Your post's Markdown file doesn't contain a Description or Image metadata line. You can add something like this:

  Title: Sharing is caring
  Date: 2022-08-16
  Tags: demo
  Image: assets/2022-08-16-sharing-preview.png
  Image-Alt: A leather-bound notebook lies open on a writing desk
  Twitter-Handle: quickblog
  Description: quickblog now creates nifty social media sharing cards / previews. Read all about how this works and how you can maximise engagement with your posts!
  
  You may have already heard the good news: quickblog is more social than ever!
  ...
  

I'll try to make this more obvious in the documentation.

[borkdude]

Thanks! I'll try this next time I write a blog