Refreshing a Card in a Tweet
I updated my site meta tags, but my Tweet shows the old Card. How do I refresh the Card?
Our web crawlers re-index the Card tag information on your page roughly every week.
When testing and/or iterating on Cards, it is sometimes helpful to test updates on your timeline. It may be possible to use the following technique to refresh the cache with your most up-to-date changes of your page’s Card.
- Add Card metadata to a page
- Tweet URL to that page
- Refresh your browser to view the Card contents on your timeline
- Change Card metadata on the page
- Take the same URL and runs it through bit.ly
- Tweet the new bit.ly URL
- Refresh your browser to view the updates
Additionally, you can create multiple bit.ly URLs to allow for repeat testing. For example, adding dummy parameters to the end of your URL (
http://www.test.com/?x=test1) or a unique hash (
http://www.test.com/#test1) will generally not affect the page contents, but will generate a unique bit.ly URL for each unique value of
x.