Using Twitter cards for better tweets
Posted August 26, 2016 at 03:56 PM | categories: publication | tags:
Updated August 26, 2016 at 04:32 PM
@article{thirumalai-2015-pt-pd, author = "Hari Thirumalai and John R. Kitchin", title = {The Role of Vdw Interactions in Coverage Dependent Adsorption Energies of Atomic Adsorbates on Pt(111) and Pd(111)}, journal = "Surface Science ", pages = " - ", year = 2015, doi = {10.1016/j.susc.2015.10.001}, url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039602815003052", issn = "0039-6028", }
See it here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039602815003052.
The main goal of this post is to test run using a Twitter card to make better tweets about publications.
This post did not work quite like I anticipated, mostly because of the way I publish my blog which focuses only on the HTML body. The meta tags that are needed for Twitter do not seem to get put in the header as needed. If I do a regular org export with HTML_HEAD options to get this page: http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/publications/twitter-card.html, it did work. The page is pretty bare, but it could be embellished without much work.
Tweeting that URL led to this tweet:
Test tweet with a twitter card: https://t.co/TagjgTgFmZ
— John Kitchin (@johnkitchin) August 26, 2016
On Twitter, this showed an image of the picture on the page, and linked directly to the page I made. The image is sized a little large and doesn't fit in card quite right, but this is probably fixable. This whole process could be smoothed out a lot with a custom export to get the twitter meta tags in the right place, and maybe provide links to bibtex files, analytics, etc. Sounds like a fun project ;)
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