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If you want to share a web page article on Twitter, just copy and paste the page URL to tweet it. When you tweet a URL, the Twitter post should show the first image from the web page, along with the title and a short summary displayed under the image in the Twitter post, that is called Twitter Card. It is supposed to work this way, but unfortunately, not always. When you put a URL to tweet, it may just show to URL but nothing else. This is likely to happen when you copy and paste to tweet URL from your Goggle blogger site that you want to promote in Twitter. Thus, you wonder, why the image from my blogger does not show in Twitter post? In fact, many questions had been asked regarding displaying images in Twitter, - how to show image and summary automatically when tweeting a URL? how to display an image in Twitter post from a website page? how to include the image automatically when tweeting an article? All the questions pertains to the Twitter Card. Twitter Card The image along with th...

Twitter, like other social media platforms, has imposed the standards, specifications, and limits for account setup and operations. The standards and specifications are to advocate the best practice in Twitter activities. Limits are needed to alleviate some of the strain on the behind-the-scenes part of Twitter and reduce downtime and error pages. Text Length Limits Username (Handle): 15 char. Display Name: 50 char. Bio: 160 char. Post: 280 char. (increased from 140 char in Sept 2017) The post 280-char count includes hashtags and URLs. The URL is wrapped to 23-char shortened URL. Thus, if you include a URL in tweet, it will take 23 chars no matter how long it is. Activity (Technical) Limits Tweets: 2,400 per day. (This limit is further broken down into semi-hourly intervals.) Direct Messages: 1,000 messages sent per day. Following: 1,000 per day Following total: 5,000 per account. Once an account is following 5,000 other accounts, additional follow attempts are limited by account-s...

It is a coincidence that both Twitter and Facebook changed their API rules recently. Twitter is a major social media platform used by business owners and individuals for marketing, engagement, and personal social networking. Many people have multiple Twitter accounts for business and personal use. Some people create multiple accounts with similar contents to attempt for increasing the market influence. The new Twitter rule is to address the issue of multiple account abuse and automated spam. The new rule has affected the legitimate use of Twitter tool for Twitter management and engagement. For example, Social Bee, a SaaS social media tool with emphasis on Twitter, had to make adjustments and downgrades on some of the features in response to the new Twitter rules. Social Bee has a recent announcement within the tool regarding the new Twitter rule: “Thanks” to the recent Twitter rule changes, you won’t be able to select more than one Twitter account when creating your posts, adding RSS ...

Facebook API was introduced in 2014 to allow the integration of Facebook functions with the third-party applications. The development of Facebook API facilitated the growing business of social media management and automation tools such as Promo Republic, Social Bee, Planable, and more. The recent changes of rules and restrictions for Facebook API can affect some of the automatic functions and availability of some management features with these tools. What do the API changes mean to Facebook users, especially those who use the third-party Facebook management tools? These FB API changes have two important aspects. First, the new Facebook API rule is to strengthen the app review requirements. It states that "access to these APIs will require a formal app review and for apps using the Pages API, submission is required within 90 days once app review resumes or access will be removed." That means vendors of Facebook tools will need to go through the new review process in order to g...

Social media platforms, - Facebook, Twitter, and more, have size specifications for images for the setup and postings. You may wonder, what is the standard size of Facebook header image? what is the preferred picture size of Twitter profile? what is the optimum size of graphs posted to Instagram? and so on. It is important to make the size right for images on each platform. The following guide provide the updated social media image size for 2018. Facebook     Facebook cover photo: 851 x 315 px     Facebook profile picture: 170 x 170 px     Facebook link image: 1200 x 628 px Twitter     Twitter cover photo: 1500 x 500 px     Twitter profile picture: 150 x 150 px     Twitter link image: 506 x 253 px LinkedIn     LinkedIn cover photo: 1584 x 396 px     LinkedIn profile picture: 130 x 130 px     LinkedIn link image: 520 x 272 px Instagram         Instagram profile picture: 320 x 320...