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Instagram and Twitter make peace: you can now see Instagram previews in card mode within a tweet

The interaction between the different social networks is something more and more common. Sharing links between them is normal, although not in the case of Instagram and Twitter, whose relationship was not fruitful and in fact Couldn’t see Instagram link previews on Twitter… up to now.

And is that Instagram has announced yet another novelty and he has done so through his Twitter account: again previews of Instagram links can be seen on Twitter. Thus no longer need to resort to third-party platforms as is the case with IFTT, since the previews already appear natively.

Preview in card mode

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If we now take a link from Instagram and share it on Twitter we will see how a card preview appears in the Tweet that we are going to write. Much more comfortable and above all much more visual for Twitter users.

They said it would never happen… Twitter Card previews start rolling out TODAY. 👀

Now, when you share an Instagram link on Twitter a preview of that post will appear.

And although Instagram has announced the arrival of this functionality, it must be remembered that it is not something new. Sharing Instagram links and showing them in card mode it was possible until Facebook or rather, Goal, bought instagram. From there, the relationships between Twitter and Instagram went awry.

Twitter prevented Instagram from using its API to allow users to search for Twitter friends on Instagram and the latter did the same by preventing Instagram links from being embedded on Twitter in the form of a card.

To be able to check how this option works just enter any Instagram post and click on the three dots that appear on the right side. For testing I have used iOS, but it also works on Android. In the case of iOS I have used the option to share with Twitter and in the one that accompanies the article you can see the result.

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