This is a good idea. I would like the ability to add an excerpt when publishing a long post, even without cross-posting in mind; however, it would be excellent if this excerpt was then automatically included in the cross-posted tweet.
It would also be great to include a featured image but I can only imagine that would take longer than just the text excerpt.
I don’t think it works this way, but it’s possible @manton could change how cross posting works to be based on a Hugo template. If he did, it’s be easily overridden with templates.
Twitter are trying to neuter 3rd party posting. Not only do algo’s already slam (as @chrisaldrich has shown), they now include a source references, at least on web UI e.g.:
If they’re going to expose 3rd party posting (making it look less authentic), they should at least have the courtesy to link to the platform rather than to their own FAQ page!
Haven’t they always included the client reference - it used to link to an address provided when you registered to use the API, but it’s always been there even if various clients made it more / less prominent.
I deliberately used Tweetdeck for a while because that’s always shown it and I was interested in who was using which tools.
There have been client references on Twitter for over a decade. It’s one of the early ways third-party clients took off, honestly. I actually prefer them exposing this data.
When cross-posted to Twitter and Mastodon, the link was replaced in-line with the URL; it used to be that these links were just appended to the end of the tweet/toot:
Your mom is killing your chances of going viral on Facebook:
Believe he references previous articles about 3rd party stifing. But it might be outdated now.
I’d love to see a recent quant analysis of this phenomenon across platforms
I feel like yours is a variant of that latter case where for some reason it replaced the word.
Just spitballing: could it be a bug because earthquake is the first word in the domain??
Is anyone doing anything clever to format their posts for better cross-posting?
I’m not keen on how the Twitter cross-poster puts the link ‘in-line’ (I’d like it on a separate line) and I’d also like to link back to my MB post even when it’s <280 chars. Advice appreciated
I definitely agree with that… Have a Medium account, but that’s more because there are people who insist on posting to Medium instead of to their own web site, so I’m stuck with it.
@manton Cross-posting from my second blog (theplaytime.micro.blog) to Twitter still doesn’t work. I’ve reconnected it multiple times, but still no results. Please help.
Not sure if there’s been a change on HTML formatting on their end (perhaps to do with the fact pages can have custom designs now, like my dark mode?).
Although this seems doubtful because it still looks like this on the old Edit view:
So they missed out on my posts about Micro.Camp.
Hearteningly, unlike some of these ^ unlucky folks the same RSS feed still cross-posted to Twitter consistently - which is the most important:
Interestingly, Mastodon has had some miss but some come through.
To conclude, I guess at least for Medium it was a blessing in disguise that it stopped!!
But I hope we can work towards have cross-posting that can be relied upon to go out in a decent format!
Yeah, since resubscribing, cross-posting does not work for me with Twitter or Mastodon. I’ve tried feed.xml and feed.json and feed.rss, all to no avail. Sigh.