How Can I Post A Tweet On Twitter And Have My Image Included?

you have to tweet it on their site there is an upload button on twitters site. but i wouldn't put them on all of the tweets. just a few to catch attention. if you make that site a gallery, there will be no incentive to come here.

---Mike Savad

John, Mike and Abbie,

Do either of you know if Twitter Summary Cards with Large Images is available to us?

I am looking into it. Abbie? You out there? Your input is always valuable.

I am wondering if the HTML code is to be loaded onto the bio in the AW or FAA site?

And then there are possibly the brackets starts and stops, do they need to be taken out
with the exception of the first and very last brackets? This would make it all one line
of code?

How much of Twitter's process is automatic. In their writings on this the html code
needs info entered, but the html code could pick that up automatically from the artist
on a higher level. What I am getting at is that every image does not mean a trip to the
html code or does it?

This is a link to what I am reading on Twitter:

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/large-image-summary-card

On the link summary card with large images, the images can only be 1 MB or smaller images. This is
a possible. I 'saved as...' my only image so far on FAA as it appears on Twitter. The Twitter
same inage is a large thumbnail. The size of the image was around 14 k, if I remember correctly.
The original image is far larger. The original image in JPEG form with a little compression is over
1 MB. So this opens up a question of what image size Twitter would use and from where? What is
produced on their servers or the original file uploaded to FAA?

Dave

Mike,

The summary card images are under 1 MB. Roughly the same percentage of potential buyers anywhere would
want to buy. Meaning that no one can really replicate such a small file all that well. And even if they did they
would be far and few between. Most of the people that wanted John's images hanging on their walls would
still link through to FAA. And because he can target his audience his sales would increase. I do agree that
by showing so many images more or less at one time some folks, very very few, would not buy, when if they had come directly
to FAA first they might have. But again the numbers churned out by Twitter tweets more than makes up for that
problem. John wins if he does this, but he needs to have a better schedule than a simple dump.

On Twitter there is an "ADD THIS" account you can follow. In their tweets they leave their research on how
audiences tune into twitter. While the info is somewhat fragmented for us, since it does not cover fine art sales,
women tend to see more tweets sometime between 10 and 11 am. While men seem to see sports stories
on Twitter more often between 12 and 1 pm. I hope I have that correct, but the point is that audiences have
all sorts of stats associated with their arrivals etc.....

Timing is everything.
https://twitter.com/search?q=add%20this&mode=users

This will take up much of instagram's bandwidth this week. But the world is your oyster according to this
article.
http://www.addthis.com/blog/2014/09/04/fashion-weeks-ruling-instagram-and-should-rule-your-content-too/#.VAvuJ_ldWjF

This is about FB links with photos instead of photos with links in the caption. The article is on the changes happening at FB.
Twitter will follow, but more importantly getting folks to hit the link happens more this way. One reason is less ridiculous competition.
Another reason is the link is clearer to the audience for engagement. I have to study Summary Cards v. how I have my FAA
Twitter automatic posting currently.
http://www.addthis.com/blog/2014/09/03/how-facebooks-newsfeed-clickbait-update-affects-your-content-strategy/#.VAvvK_ldWjG

Here is another brief article from ADD THIS on how many tweets are actually impressions and then engaged and then RT.
http://www.addthis.com/blog/2014/08/29/only-a-fraction-of-your-followers-see-your-tweets-make-each-tweet-matter/#.VAvxa_ldWjF

I finally found an ADD THIS study in article form that is short and sweet about share and click times across Pin, Twit, FB, and Linkin.
The second tip is not good. The reason is that if a lot is being done at one general time on one of these social networking sites then
your content as an artist will come in a distant third. The first tip is very very useful. Moving tweets from the morning to early afternoon
corresponds with when your audience shows up to read. Pinterest is a little different. This is a quick easy read. But since too a larger degree
FAA and Twitter are followed more by women tweet times of about 10 or 11 am are best....in all likelihood. Art sales maybe very competitive, but
it is not the sports channel.
http://www.addthis.com/blog/2014/04/03/whens-the-best-day-and-time-to-post-on-social-media/#.VAvyzPldWjG

Dave

https://twitter.com/DavidBridburg

Abbie, Mike and John,

What is interesting here is that there is only one link on an image FAA uploads to Twitter.
That link is above the image. The Summary cards have the image, the link, the blurb and the
final link just above the blurb on the card all embedded with where to go. At least the example
given in Twitter's description has all of those methods to go and see the article on the website
in the example.

Play with this example. I already linked this two posts up.

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/large-image-summary-card

Dave

This is very good. I know that Twitter is a huge tool IF used with respect. That is, sharing, talking as well as advertising. Too many people just feed their links and nothing else...no retweets, chat etc

I have just gone back there after some time basically ignoring, and wonder why I left!

As for the cards, I have pointed it out to Sean........

its hard to chat in that site. and it's too easy to accidentally add a @ instead of a #. i don't see many people looking at a stream. i can see them interested in a tag and then watching it some how (i know there is a function for that), then watching it go by.

that twitter card is a bit alien to me, i send out simple tweets. chopping off the bits in the front and back that pushes this site.


---Mike Savad

Mike,

From the example on the link three and five posts back on this thread, the card would not say
what your link is or @fineartamerica. Instead four times over embedded links would be there for the
reader. With most of the card embedded, there are two links back to the twitter account as well, readers
en masse are far more apt to get to the fineartamerica sales sheets. The sales percentages rise, in
many cases. I wont get into the philosophical matters on selling from fineartamerica, except to say the big advantage is
a lone artist can not get strangers to hand over credit cards v the disadvantage of POD not really being
collectible art works, but for Sean it is a matter of driving traffic not getting every tweet labeled as '@fineartamerica'.
At least I hope he can see more legitimacy in volume making FAA ubiquitous v. getting the name of the site out there.

Every reader of a Twitter card carrying four embedded FAA art work links who uses a link to show up on FAA for however long adds to our credibility.
A good while back I might have been the first one to say the FAA name is extremely valuable to these artists. There was I believe, I was not
a member just a lurker, a time when FAA offered AW with shopping carts that did not have the FAA logo. I might well have been the first to point
out through another artist here and on imagekind that FAA's logo on the AW and shopping carts on the AW meant sales. Now I am suggesting getting the logo more viewership
from Twitter followers, but only after they demonstrate some interest, an engagement, in the work on a card.

Just my opinions, there are some analytic studies done elsewhere showing these things to be true, but it is not
like they are making hard and fast scientific rules.

The more important technical matter is whether the cards can be automated in the process? I dont know enough about HTML in this process.
I would guess they can be. The example on this thread from Twitter offering Summary Cards with Large Images made it seem as if each image
needed a new card with new entries into the HTML code. Again I dont know enough technically to comment. I am curious though so anyone out
there in the know?


Dave

Abbie,

Someone who does extremely good surreal work follows me on Twitter. I would rather not
name him here. While lurking on FAA some months back I really took notice of his work. He has
over 10k or 20k Twitter followers. I have seen so many Twitter accounts over the last few weeks
my head hurts. I forget exactly how many followers he has. He obviously is using Hootsuite or a similar program
and is making dumps as I call them. For him it might shake the tree so to speak and get him a few
sales, but it is very roughshod. He does offer some remarks. But remarks without feedback
are not chat.

I am not sure on Twitter that chat will be there very often.This social medium really strays from the
FB model in that way. Because there is less chat the streams move faster. On my FB feed I have a friend
whose baby is now seven months old. It has been seven to ten baby pics per day for seven months. We can not
get past the fact that she has had her third child. A baby girl that is very beautiful, but that and a dime will
not buy me a cup of coffee.

The ideal is working the numbers in a different way. Mega users with huge follower bases are almost
useless, while smaller user accounts with good numbers say 1k to 10k followers in the arts have
followers with common interests and slightly slower moving streams. The mega user accounts
are pumping far too much commercial info to be useful in most cases for artists. JMO

I am following just under 500 Twitter accounts. I chose at first with less education to break into
the fashion industry for "consumers". So I have followed a lot of fashion industry Twitter accounts.
I need to weed them out now to make room for chat on my Twitter stream. I would no more read my
stream right now that talk to the man in the moon. My stream has been off limits to me for a few weeks now.
I am new to Twitter.

My followers on the other hand are some folks from the fashion industry that want to see what I am doing.
Yet my following is straying further and further from the fashion industry into the arts. I am now starting to make
a fair assumption that anyone, photographers, painters, etc interested in any way in the arts will have consumers
of the arts who will occasionally buy art. This is why Twitter accounts with 1k to 10k followers in the arts are so
valuable, those accounts have non-artists in larger numbers getting involved with slower streams.

Job number one tomorrow as time permits WEED out the fashion industry from my follows list.

Dave

One has to be involved as with any other social media site. Only tweeting your own stuff or operating on auto tweets permanently will kill your feed and followers eventually. You can also tweet a picture from FAA if you connect your FAA to your twitter account. Once linked you go to edit your artwork here on FAA, scroll down to the bottom and click the twitter box.

Good light and happy photo making!

Juergen

No time like the present. I just hit unfollow on 390 Twitter accounts I was following.

That leaves me with 71 followers and 81 accounts I follow.

I can now begin to read and chat on my stream.

Thanks for letting me flesh out my thoughts here.

Dave

I follow many people but I have to....however my followers are eclectic. Most are in the arts...writers, musicians and artists but I have a couple (or I did, haven't checked recently) TV stations, American government and galleries. However, I'm not just doing my art and mainly doing interviews and exhibition news of the large galleries plus lifestyle blogs posts

And puppy updates lol

Always follow re tweeters.., they are an essential part of the package

i don't seem to get mail from twitter any more. i used to get all the joins, retweets etc. and even though i'm still checked off i don't seem to get any now, i wonder why. every day i would get something to follow more people, don't get it now.

---Mike Savad

They have changed a lot behind the scenes.. go and check your notifications

I do as Mike does-hit the "twitter" i con, remove the "I just uploaded" first part, hashtag as keywords and the images show up fine. If someone clicks on the image it comes back to here. Many have been retweeted, it appears, but I don't really log in except to link my FAA uploads. Guess I should more often. All that other stuff, fuhgeddaboudit-too technically deep for me.