Twitter Updates Embedded Tweets With Richer Photos

About two months after Facebook introduced embedded posts that include photos, Twitter has upgraded its embeds to better showcase its photos.

Twitter, which announced the move on its blog on Thursday, illustrated the upgrade with this Aug. 11 tweet from astronaut Chris Hadfield:

Good morning! Perspective - Sunday is a fine day to go for a walk with a friendpic.twitter.com/P3uDfjYsEU

— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) August 11, 2013

"As you can see from @CMDR_Hatfield’s Tweet embedded above, we’ve put the photo front and center, with a bigger and bold visual focus on the media," Brian Ellin, Twitter's project manager, platform, wrote in the blog post. "Both landscape and portrait photos now have more room to show their pixels when the Tweets are embedded online." Read more...