They're sending you traffic.
Imagine Twitter or Facebook without link preview, it's much harder to use and overall reduces the change I'll click on a link. Do you think only Twitter and Facebook should be allowed publish previews?
Imagine Twitter or Facebook without link preview, it's much harder to use and overall reduces the change I'll click on a link. Do you think only Twitter and Facebook should be allowed publish previews?
They also have their own validators: https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator and https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
The only issue I'm aware of is that Facebook's crawler breaks about every two months or so.
>https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/c...
So, I should have to include twitter specific meta tags even though I personally don't care about twitter? Maybe twitter should make it clear which tags they read? Maybe it's SEO bullshit I don't care about? Maybe even even the OG: tags don't work all the time and result in dumb previews?
Actually it's easier to use, in that the preview doesn't take up screen real estate. Perhaps you mean the experience is less pleasant?
Irrelevant traffic for every metric I care about.
>Imagine Twitter or Facebook without link preview
That's exactly what I'm saying. Either I care about what that person thinks might interest me or I don't. The link preview abstract is shit anyway. Does the site title and the 2 sentence abstract really sway you? If someone wants to send traffic my way, writing an interesting abstract is not too much to ask.
>it's much harder to use and overall reduces the change I'll click on a link
Maybe you should re-evaluate who you follow on twitter? I frankly could care less about facebook.
>Do you think only Twitter and Facebook should be allowed publish previews?
I think previews are worthless regardless, I thought I made that clear. Either you care about me linking it to you or you do not.
*EDIT: And just for fun, here is the link preview stuff from my latest skype call with my brother: https://imgur.com/a/yO5OP36
Look at all the value those previews added.