Since I Began Helping the Team on Social Media I Have Been Asking for Large Twitter Cards.

My reasoning is really quite simple. People love imagery and our community has image friendly content like photography, food, travel, memes and art. Twitter rolled out Large Summary Twitter cards a few years back and I quickly implemented them on my personal sites as well as had clients implement them on theirs. There are no current studies that back up my desire for large images. So I don't have hard numbers on Twitter benefits of large summary cards.

Hubspot Published an Article, "14 Ways to Increase Your Clickthrough Rate on Twitter".

Example Small Summary Twitter Card from Sprout Social.

Example Large Summary Twitter Card from Sprout Social.

Currently the Steemit platform is using the small version. In order to follow the 2017 roadmap we are cleaning up the @Steemit Twitter account and manually curating posts. The account has grown from around 1,000 followers in September to over 7,000 now. There are only a few blockchain news sites and organizations that have larger followings. Steemit is quietly starting to rank for key subjects like Crypto Currencies on Klout as you see below.

Imagery is Everything Today.

The success of Instagram, Snapchat and Pinterest tells us that images are super important. Humans are visual creatures. We only have a few short seconds to catch user attention online and images are the hook. Videos are quickly gaining prominence but in the meantime Steemit has images, so I would love to see large image summary cards implemented. This will be the last time I ask for them since I have been asking since September and getting nowhere fast.

Disdain for Marketers is Understood.

I know that marketers are the used car salesman of the internet. We are not well liked and we deserve much of what is said about us. On a daily basis I look for ways to exploit social networks in order to gain an advantage for my brand and my clients brands. The cool thing is that I am here to help grow the Steemit community, which benefits everyone involved. I don't mind being the red headed step child in the room. I will lay low and just provide tons of invisible promotion across the web for the Steemit platform.