Instagram Post Preview Cards are Back on Twitter | Social Media Today

It’s been a long time coming, and a much-requested update, and today, finally, Instagram has announced that IG posts shared in tweets will appear with preview cards once again, helping to improve cross-platform sharing. They said it would never happen… Twitter Card previews start rolling out TODAY. ????Now, when you share an Instagram link on Twitter a preview of that post will appear. ???? pic.twitter.com/XSZRx9dzd1— Instagram (@instagram) November 3, 2021 Instagram preview links were previously available on Twitter, but Instagram canceled them in 2012, making it annoyingly difficult to share between the two apps. But then, earlier this year, Instagram and Twitter started working together again, with tweets appearing as shareable stickers in Instagram Stories. That opened the door to more potential cross-app collaboration, and a subsequent tweet exchange between Twitter product chief Kayvon Beykpour and Instagram chief Adam Mosseri eventually lead to this new tweet card update. If you want to share your latest Instagram post on the Twitter timeline too, you’re in luck: now when you share a link to an IG post in a Tweet, it’ll show up as a card with a preview of the photo.Rolling out on Android, iOS, and web.— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) November…
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