From 8f5dc9da3bcb00da043e6c9a8e7060e326b93d5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Stanciu Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2023 15:13:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3c54528..c7bbe31 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ # 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: + +Screenshot of a link in iMessage with no OG data + +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: + +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 + +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.