When I've shared posts from this blog on twitter in the past the experience is pretty bare with just a url showing up. I've been meaning to improve the how this works and finally got round to what was a fairly small tweak.
Twitter cards
By providing some meta data on your page twitter can pull out some info and create a better looking post. Twitter creates a 'twitter card' with a title, summary and an image. All this info is on the page - I followed the instructions provided by twitter and added the relevant meta data.
Twitter often caches urls and their meta data so any previously shared urls might not pick up the updates. There is a validator you can use to check the setup. Here's a screenshot of my last post in the validator. Looks much smarter and more trustworthy to click on!
