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  • Thread Starter teknics

    (@teknics)

    For clarity, here is what the Jetpack pane for the custom message looks like when I create a post:

    https://www.theislesfaithful.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-16-at-9.10.54-AM.png

    Plugin Support darnelldibbles

    (@darnelldibbles)

    Hi there,

    This isn’t displayed anywhere so you wouldn’t have known about it, but attached images in a Tweet occupy an additional 23 characters of the available tweet message. The “characters remaining” numbers in the sharing options does not take into account the extra image link. That is why it sometimes truncates the Twitter messages and other times it is fine – you’re unknowingly going over the character limit whenever the message is cut off.

    This is actually a longstanding issue have an open report for, but hopefully this is something that will help you as you construct your custom messages moving forward.

    Thanks,

    Thread Starter teknics

    (@teknics)

    If I tweet the same things manually, with the featured image it’s fine, so it’s not that.

    I verify via the Twitter card verifier if there’s an issue – I’m not really adding an image as the card pulls the featured images.

    If that’s not confusing lol

    Plugin Contributor James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    When the post is sent out via Jetpack Publicize, the image is attached as an image, not just as an image embedded in the Twitter card (like a manual share would have).

    Thread Starter teknics

    (@teknics)

    See learn something new every day. I stand corrected.

    So it boils down to:

    Title Length
    Hashtag Characters
    @username Characters
    Image Link
    Actual Link

    It’s time for a URL shortener I guess to experiment.

    Thank you.

    So clearly then there no fix for this lol

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by teknics.
    Plugin Support KokkieH

    (@kokkieh)

    It’s time for a URL shortener I guess to experiment.

    That is unlikely to make a difference, as Twitter already uses a URL shortener to shorten any links you include in a tweet automatically. No matter the actual length of the URL, it will always take up 23 characters of your tweet:

    https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/how-to-tweet-a-link

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