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To optimize Twitter shares from your website, you should customize your Shareaholic Twitter Template and setup Twitter Cards.
How Twitter determines the Link Preview
With Twitter Cards, you can attach rich photos, videos and media experience to Tweets that will drive traffic back to your website. By simply adding a few lines of HTML to your webpage, users who Tweet links to your content will have a "Card" added to the Tweet that’s visible to all of their followers.
How to Setup Twitter Cards
Some CMS' like WordPress and Drupal have SEO and Metatag plugins available that make the job of adding pertinent meta tags to your pages 1-click easy. For WordPress, WordPress SEO by Yoast or All in One SEO Pack plugin are great options. For Drupal 7 and 8, the Metatag module is a popular option. If you're not on WordPress or Drupal, you can also manually insert the relevant meta tags into your template.
How to Verify that Twitter is Picking Up Correct Data
Once you've added the pertinent meta tags to your page either via a plugin or directly in your template, run your URL against the validator tool to test and preview - https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator
