The card validator shows a thumbnail of the last image in my post (railroad tracks with car) when I expect and desire the 2nd image (highlighted aerial photo.) The validator gives no information about why an image was selected/rejected.
Troubleshooting steps: I’ve gone through several pages of troubleshooting steps. The desired image is JPG, under 5MB, etc. Is there some way to see why Twitter selects/rejects images for the thumbnail?
URL affected: A West Oakland Amtrak Connection – Better Connections
Desired image: https://betterconnectionsblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/3.jpg
Displayed image: https://betterconnectionsblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/img_03521.jpg
Relevant HTML:
you don’t seem to have a twitter:image tag specified, you have og:image though - i have no idea why Twitter picks the other image but i think specifying twitter:image should work
Thanks Igor. The Jetpack plug-in for Wordpress.com created all those tags, and I don’t yet know how to control them.
All I want is to set the thumbnail in a single tweet.
It is so frustrating that I can’t control the display of a tweet via Twitter itself. I have to set meta tags in the page I am linking to, and hope that they satisfy Twitter’s mystery rules for thumbnail selection.
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