Instagram disables support for Twitter cards
Twitter users may start seeing some wonky Instagram photos appear on their feeds. That's because the popular photo-sharing app is dropping support for Twitter cards - a feature that lets users see media displayed with a tweet.
Twitter posted a status update addressing photo-rendering issues, which reads:
Users are experiencing issues with viewing Instagram photos on Twitter. Issues include cropped images. This is due to Instagram disabling its Twitter cards integration, and as a result, photos are being displayed using a pre-cards experience. So, when users click on Tweets with an Instagram link, photos appear cropped.
Instagram's chief executive officer Kevin Systrom announced Wednesday at the LeWeb conference in Paris that the company's relationship is changing, not terminating.
Systrom is hoping to push users to Instagram's newly launched online profiles.
"Really it's about where do you go to consume that image, to interact with that image. We want that to be on Instagram," Systrom said at the LeWeb conference. "What we realized over time is we really needed to have an awesome Web presence."
Quelling questions over Facebook's reach over Instagram's decision to curb Twitter integration, Systrom insisted that the decision was his to make. And that the social network, which acquired Instagram earlier this year, had no influence on the company's direction.
"This decision is definitely coming from me," Systrom said. "This is not a case of Facebook putting some sort of policy on Instagram. And this isn't a consequence of us getting acquired."
Systrom emphasized that the decision was not a tit-for-tat reaction to Twitter cutting access to Twitter's users list on the Instagram app.
"The press has a history of painting things this way. We have a really good relationship with Twitter," Systrom said.
