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BigTrucker ago

They can change these pics at will. Good lord people.

corrbrick ago

If a tweet's picture is changed, would that not also update the timestamp? Asking for someone who has never used twitter.

FractalizingIron ago

No, because the pic comes from an EMBEDDED LINK. THe Tweet itself is the same, including date it was published, but it links to a live (current) page, and the current screen shot image (card) for that page is loaded each time the Tweet is loaded.

In other words, published tweet is reloaded, but linked page image is always current.

Specific_Fox ago

That's a ridiculous amount of work. It's easier to delete/repost the tweet. No moron's going to do what you suggested.

FractalizingIron ago

OMG. You really have ZERo idea how the internet works?

Don;t you realize that EVERYTIME you boot your computer and browse a website, the browser UPDATES the website content provided to it?

Please. Please. You have zero idea what you are talking about.

https://dev.to/ben/how-devto-dynamically-generates-social-images--2c2n

Specific_Fox ago

Stop being a jerk. That's not the way Twitter works. It's not the same thing so stop comparing them.

FractalizingIron ago

PS. Fox, have a read of this thread. You might learn a bit about how this all works.

just a suggestion.

https://voat.co/v/QRV/3862721