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title: "Twitter Summary Card"  
description: "With the help Twitter of Cards, we can attach rich photos, videos and media experience to Tweets that drive page traffic to our website."  
author: "Ashish srivastava"  
published: 2015-08-25  
updated: 2019-11-12  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1846/twitter-summary-card  
category: "social media optimization"  
tags: ["smo"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Twitter Summary Card

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[Twitter](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12385/simple-twitter-tips-to-drive-more-traffic-to-your-blog) Cards API allows our site to be more informational when tweeted. Implementing Twitter Card META tags on [your site](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12865/infographic-drive-traffic-to-your-site-in-2018-10-hints) takes five [minutes](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1139/6-ways-to-boost-your-energy-in-10-minutes-or-less), applying for approval from Twitter takes another five minutes, and from that point forward, [your content](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/11869/tips-on-how-to-take-your-content-marketing-strategy-to-the-next-level) is presented much more professionally.

he Summary Card can be used for many kinds of [web content](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/303211/explore-the-web-content-accessibility-guidelines-wcag-2-1), from blog posts and news [articles](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12872/how-to-write-articles-of-50-and-more-a-day-quick-and-easy), to [products](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2358/apple-will-use-us-made-semiconductors-in-its-products-to-lessen-its-dependency-on-asia) and restaurants. It is designed to give the reader a preview of the content before clicking through to [your website](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81591/semrush-tutorial-and-review-2020-how-to-use-it-to-20x-your-website-traffic).

##### Adding a Summary Card to your tweets is as simple as adding meta tags to site:

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<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary" />

<meta name="twitter:site" content="@flickr" />

<meta name="twitter:title" content="Small Island Developing States Photo [Submission](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/156281/what-is-search-engine-submission)" />

<meta name="twitter:description" content="View the album on Flickr." />

<meta name="twitter:image" content="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5510/14338202952_93595258ff_z.jpg" />

There are three types of Twitter Cards: summary, photo, and video. The summary

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Twitter Card is for articles and text-based content, while photo and video cards are

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self-explanatory.

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