Expanding embedded content in a Tweet

Hi Ian,

Currently it only shows information sent back by Twitter – and, when I last looked, that does include media, but doesn’t include Twitter card info – although I will recheck this.

The first thing I’ll be looking to do is provide more info on quoted tweets – since all the info in a retweet is sent back – but unless it’s a straight retweet RT currently only shows the link.

It will be a major upgrade though! And hard to manage with backward compatibility!

Best wishes,

Martin

Hi Martin,

Many thanks for the prompt reply – within 8 minutes of my original query. Impressive.

I’d not appreciated that these were Twitter Cards being displayed. I can see the problem now.

Improving this would be a great enhancement to RT. I’d really like to use RT to display richer content on my site – including both media and twitter card content would deliver this.

Thanks also for sharing that retweets behave differently. I’ll look further at this. I was previously excluding retweets from display using RT altogether.

In displaying just ‘rich’ tweets/retweets using RT, and as a workaround, I was considering using a shortcode something like ‘[rotatingtweets search=”from:handle filter:media”]’. If I could combine this with retweeted content somehow, I’d be pretty happy.

Appreciate you taking the time to help. Many thanks.

Ian…