image from posts won't appear when tweeting links to page/post

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  cumberphonecampaign · Member · Sep 15, 2015 at 4:37 pm

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  I’ve included an image in a post, yet it doesn’t appear as a thumbnail when I tweet a link to that post. A blank thumbnail simply appears, next to the title of the post/page. Does the image have to be at the top of the post (this isn’t the case when tweeting a link from, say, the BBC website, where twitter just automatically uses the main/first image)? Or doe the image have to be of a particular type (it’s a JPEG) or size (it’s pretty small). Even when there isn’t an image in a post, it tweets a link with a blank thumbnail space. Any ideas? Many thanks.

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  tylerzika · Member · Sep 15, 2015 at 4:43 pm

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  Hi cumberphonecampaign!

  I tweeted a post from your blog and a thumbnail did appear next to it in my twitter feed. Here’s a screenshot.

  http://imgur.com/1WmCq7z

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  cumberphonecampaign · Member · Sep 15, 2015 at 4:47 pm

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  Well that’s clearly because you’re some kind of genius, and I’m from the planet doofus. How about if you tweet the About page?
  Did you tweet that using the imbedded “tweet” button on the wordpress site? or just using your phone’s own tweet link option?

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  tylerzika · Member · Sep 15, 2015 at 4:56 pm

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  Here is what it looks like when I tweet the About page: http://imgur.com/G0kQ3rA

  I did use the imbedded tweet button both times from your WordPress site.

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  cumberphonecampaign · Member · Sep 15, 2015 at 5:14 pm

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  Thank you so much, very kind. It seems that individual blog post work with images, but not Home or About pages. Links appear differently depending on whether tweeting from within WordPress or just going via phone, quite annoying. I’ll keep fiddling. Again, very grateful. Cheers.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 15, 2015 at 5:19 pm

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  We have no control over the images that Twitter, Facebook or any other social networks chooses to display or when they choose to flush their image caches. We really only send them the URL of the post, and they hunt through that for the excerpt and images to include. See http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#images-in-publicize

  Re: Facebook
  Sometimes these help and sometimes they don’t
  http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

  Facebook Image Thumbnail