Twitter meta tags in HTML

Twitter meta tags in HTML

In order to have a website URL showing properly in a Twitter card, some extra meta tags are necessary, with the publisher handle, the page title, the content description up to 200 characters, the creator content handle, and an image, that must be larger than 120x120 pixels.

Twitter SEO meta tags in HTML

The following meta tags have to be used, with below template that can be copied and pasted.

This is for Twitter cards only, and the meta tag in HTML should be pasted in the head section of the code:

Twitter open graph

In order to have the whole Twitter website card specs, including the Twitter card meta tags and the Facebook open graph meta tags, the full code below can be used.

This will cover all social medias meta data HTML cards, and allow a proper sharing of your URLs on all of them:

Twitter card meta tags

Once the Twitter metadata has been implemented on the website, sharing them will produce the look below, as the title, image and description will be properly retrieved by Twitter.

Twitter card validator

An online application for developers is available on Twitter website, and allows devlopers to check by themselves if the rich cards have meta tags been properly implemented on their websites.

Simply open the webpage, paste a URL in which the Twitter rich cards should appear, and see the results, or the potential errors in case of tags wrongly implemented.

Twitter post image size

An image posted in a Twitter post must be at least 120 pixels wide by 120 pixels large, or 120x120px.

Respect this minimum requirements to be sure that your images will always appear properly on the Twitter posts and will make them have a good look.

Further readings

In order to optimize your meta tags for rich cards display and other social media sharing puroposes, have a look at these great websites full of useful information:

Twitter SEO meta tags

The Twitter SEO meta tags that you must have to use the Twitter cards are the following: site, title, description, creator, and image.