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# twitter-og

An experiment to add open graph data back to Twitter
Twitter shut down public access to the platform on June 30th, 2023, along with open graph data. This made me very sad because I share a lot of links to Twitter, and now they all look like this:

<img width="132" alt="Screenshot of a link in iMessage with no OG data" src="https://github.com/MatthewStanciu/twitter-og/assets/14811170/617ffb3d-72d5-46bf-8194-b08037b48554">

Thankfully, there’s still an API for embedding tweets that’s still publicly accessible, which we can use to reconstruct the open graph data, so the tweets you share can look like this again:

<img width="370" alt="Screenshot of a link in iMessage with the caption 'I will be frontlining Glastonbury' and with a picture of a bear jumping in shallow water" src="https://github.com/MatthewStanciu/twitter-og/assets/14811170/22da3f77-b747-4185-8e78-9b91b3a86cda">

To use it, simply replace twitter.com with twitter-og.com in the link to any Twitter post. Clicking on a twitter-og.com link will still take you to the tweet.

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