Twitter shut down public access to the platform on June 30th, 2023, along with open graph data. This made me very sad because I share a lot of links to Twitter, and now they all look like this:
![Screenshot of a link in iMessage with no OG data](https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/14811170/250668493-617ffb3d-72d5-46bf-8194-b08037b48554.png?jwt=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.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.LJEj-Ye0HgIzdNPm82Edl74VIIzfav2PU0Oept_elNs)
Thankfully, there’s an API for embedding tweets that’s still publicly accessible, which we can use to reconstruct the open graph data, so the tweets you share can look like this again:
![Screenshot of a link in iMessage with the caption 'I will be frontlining Glastonbury' and with a picture of a bear jumping in shallow water](https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/14811170/250668519-22da3f77-b747-4185-8e78-9b91b3a86cda.png?jwt=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.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.SDy8e53muMrGT6cUc1SrQDWGozBj91v_SFe3kn-Brt0)
To use it, simply replace twitter.com
with twitter-og.com
in the link to any Twitter post. Clicking on a twitter-og.com
link will still take you to the tweet.