GitHub now supports Twitter Cards

Re:GitHub now supports Twitter Cards by e-dard on Thursday January 24, 2013 @02:00PM (#5111394)

Maybe I'm missing something, but do people actually see Twitter Cards in general? I mean, how many regular Twitter users actually use the web interface to interact with Twitter?

I don't know anyone that doesn't use a third-party client. And, given Twitter's clear desire to restrict 3rd party client API access, in order to get more eyeballs on more easily monetizable web-pages, Twitter Cards are never going to be seen by many users.

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Re:GitHub now supports Twitter Cards by eli on Thursday January 24, 2013 @02:06PM (#5111433)

Yes, a lot of people do use the Twitter web interface. An I would imagine that number will only go up as Twitter keeps adding features to it while also squeezing third party apps.

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Re:GitHub now supports Twitter Cards by ceejayoz on Thursday January 24, 2013 @02:21PM (#5111532)

Not to mention abandoning some of the official desktop apps. Twitter for Mac is abandonware at this point.

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Re:GitHub now supports Twitter Cards by gtaylor on Thursday January 24, 2013 @04:23PM (#5112314)

Purely anecdotal, but the web interface is probably my most frequent means of interacting with Twitter. It does what it needs to do for me.

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Re:GitHub now supports Twitter Cards by jbigelow76 on Thursday January 24, 2013 @02:29PM (#5111596)

I see card data in the native Android Twitter app.

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Re:GitHub now supports Twitter Cards by ramayac on Thursday January 24, 2013 @04:55PM (#5112512)

Oh, I do. I love getting a little bit of extra info and context before clicking on a URL. And as someone posted before, it also works really well in the Twitter Android client.

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Re:GitHub now supports Twitter Cards by recursive on Thursday January 24, 2013 @08:48PM (#5113471)

I've never used any client other than the web interface.

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