Within our software, we provide the ability for you to have your affiliates share via Twitter. Your affiliates can share a standard text tweet that contains their affiliate link or they can share a Twitter card that includes a large image, a Bold title, and a description along with the affiliates link.
The Sharing icons appear in the affiliate dashboard by default
Step 1: Go to users, manage user select user. Click on the blue pencil icon below action.
Step 2: Click on the blue pencil icon below action.
Step 3: Log in to the user interface for this user.
Step 4: Go to the Social Icons click Twitter.
Step 5. But if you want to change the text and image that is being shared. Add meta code. Please add the Twitter Open Graph Meta tag to your landing page. Below is a sample Twitter Open Graph Meta tag.
For this card to post we added the meta code shown below to our landing page:
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image">
<meta name="twitter:site" content="@osiaffiliate">
<meta name="twitter:title" content="Drive More Traffic to Your Website">
<meta name="twitter:description" content="Sign up for a FREE 15-Day trial of the Omnistar Customer referral software and start having your customers work for you.">
<meta name="twitter:image" content="http://www.osiaffiliate.com/images/omnistar-logo-fb.jpg">
Below are the suggested minimum properties for the Summary Card with Large Image including title, description, and image.
Card Property | Required |
twitter:card Must be set to a value of “summary_large_image” | Yes |
twitter:site The Twitter @username the card should be attributed to. | No |
twitter:title
| Yes |
twitter:description A description that concisely summarizes the content as appropriate for presentation within a Tweet. You should not re-use the title as the description or use this field to describe the general services provided by the website. Platform-specific behaviors:
| Yes |
twitter:image A URL to a unique image representing the content of the page. You should not use a generic image such as your website logo, author photo, or another image that spans multiple pages. Images for this Card support an aspect ratio of 2:1 with minimum dimensions of 300x157 or a maximum of 4096x4096 pixels. Images must be less than 5MB in size. JPG, PNG, WEBP, and GIF formats are supported. Only the first frame of an animated GIF will be used. SVG is not supported. | No |
twitter:image:alt A text description of the image conveying the essential nature of an image to users who are visually impaired. Maximum 420 characters. | No |