Closed Bug 1014902 Opened 11 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Add basic twitter summary card info for buglinks

Categories

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: User Interface, enhancement)

Product:
bugzilla.mozilla.org
Component:
User Interface
Version:
Production
Platform:
x86
macOS
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

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Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: johnath, Unassigned)

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Details

People tweet buglinks, and often those people are hoping to get their audience to engage with the bug, to wit: https://twitter.com/StartMozilla/status/469573455319695361 A thing that twitter does to encourage people to engage with links is "twitter cards" which present something better than just a url, to wit: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/types/summary-card That API doesn't require any privilege or complex relationship with twitter, just sending 3 <meta> tags in show_bug.cgi. Specifically: 1. <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary"> Tell twitter we want the basic "Summary" card. 2. <meta name="twitter:title" content="Bug Summary Goes Here"> I assume that's the most sensible thing to use as the title. Maybe "123456 - Bug Summary Goes Here"? 3. <meta name="twitter:description" content="Comment 0, or if there's a comment link, that comment?"> This field gets truncated to 200 characters It's possible this makes sense upstream, or as a Bugzilla extension, but right now I'd be fine to just try it on our local install. Has this already been discussed? Is it harder than it seems, or a bad idea?
according to https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/getting-started#open-graph twitter supports open-graph, so our existing open-graph tags should already be working: <meta property="og:type" content="website"> <meta property="og:image" content="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/extensions/OpenGraph/web/bugzilla.png"> <meta property="og:title" content="1014902 &ndash; Add basic twitter summary card info for buglinks"> <meta property="og:url" content="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1014902"> this works well in facebook and yammer. i'd prefer to see og fixed to work with twitter than add new twitter-specific tags. (my pre-coffee guess is the missing prefix attribute on the <html> element).
(In reply to Byron Jones ‹:glob› from comment #1) > according to https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/getting-started#open-graph > twitter supports open-graph, so our existing open-graph tags should already > be working: Oh ho! Nice! > i'd prefer to see og fixed to work with twitter than add new > twitter-specific tags. > > (my pre-coffee guess is the missing prefix attribute on the <html> element). Indeed. That would be just fine, too, clearly, and an even easier fix, one presumes?
from https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/validation/validator: > Card previews are not supported in this browser. Please use a WebKit-based browser. 10 points from gryffindor
looks like all we need to do is insert the <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary"> element to get basic support. however determining what populate the twitter:description element with may be problematic, as it's a mandatory field and we don't really have an overall description for bugs. maybe we should use the user-story field, or leave it empty if that's missing. some people write excellent descriptions in their initial comment, however this is unfortunately not that common :(
I think we know some people at Twitter; I'll tap on the glass there tomorrow, see if we can get that fixed.
Type: defect → enhancement

We already have this.

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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