If you have already set your site up with Open Graph meta data, its just a few extra steps to implement Twitter Cards
In this Best Practice guide we are assuming you have already
Implemented Open Graph Meta Data. If you haven't then you'll need to do this first!
Twitter cards make it possible for you to attach media experiences to Tweets that link to your content. Once enabled, users who Tweet links to your content will have a "card" added to the Tweet that’s visible to all of their followers.
You can find out more about Twitter Cards here Creating the Twitter Schema
To create a schema go to Administration -> Content -> Metadata. The following view will be presented:
1. Select schemas, and then click add. The following view will be presented:
2. Add the following information:
Schema Name
Twitter Cards
Property Prefix
twitter
Property Delimiter
Select ':'Creating Metatags
To create metatags go to Administration -> Content -> Tags. Select the tags tab and click add. The following view will be presented:
/ Creating and Populating Twitter Card Tags for an Easysite Page
The following metatags and associated settings would be used when including pages in a social network:
Card Type
Target: Page
Title: card
Attribute Key: Name
Population options: (simple example): select 'Fixed Value' and add a value of 'summary' - this will automatically add the same value to every page on the site, if you want finer control you could leave this open for authors to enter a more appropriate value such as 'product' - you can veiw an exhaustive list of available card types here
Show meta tag without Schema: uncheck
Twitter Username
Target: Page
Title: creator
Attribute Key: Name
Population options:
Use: Fixed Value
Fixed Value: @yourtwitterusername
Show meta tag without Schema: uncheck
Associate your Twitter Tags with your Twitter Schema
Once you have set up your tags you will need to associate them with the twitter schema you created in the first step.
go to Administration -> Content -> Tags
select schemas
select Twitter Cards
select associated tags tab
check the box for the two twitter tags created earlier
click the associate button
Testing, validating and getting approval from Twitter
Note: this will not work automatically, you need to have your site authorised by Twitter - you can do this here (once you have set up your metadata)