Tweeted post shows pre-edit and no featured image

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    davidhansard · Member ·

    I wrote a post with an image at the top of the post.

    The next day I edited the post’s subtitle. By subtitle, I mean the first line of my post, which I happen to have in bold type.

    But when I tweet the post, from within Twitter, it displays the old subtitle in the post. (In this case, the word And is at the start, when in fact in the post, it no longer is.)

    Also, the tweet does not display the image of the post, only my WordPress avatar, which are my initials.

    So I set a featured image for the post (same image as the image at the top of the post), but still when tweeted it only displays the avatar.

    I’m no expert. Does WordPress.com store a cached version of a post for a long time, so that even if the first few lines are edited later it still shows the old lines on a tweet?

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    aisajib · Member ·

    Hi there!

    When you share a link to sites like Twitter and Facebook, they cache the link preview (the title, featured image, and the excerpt). They won’t fetch any updated content until the cache expires. So the cached version you’re referring to isn’t on our end but on Twitter’s.

    Twitter does have a Card Validator that you can use to fetch a new link preview for your post. Please try using that here: https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator

    Once it starts showing the updated link preview on the Card Validator, Twitter will show the updated image when the link is shared again. It will not update the images for the tweets that have already been sent.

    Hope that helps!

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    davidhansard · Member ·

    Thank you so much, aisajib. That was useful and interesting. I never knew such a validator existed.

    I tried it and it looks like the cache had already expired, because when I entered the URL it displayed the updated, edited summary of the blog post. So all okay now.

    Thanks again. D

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