Relative image paths for Twitter cards in blogdown

Question

I\'m trying to set up a template for generating Twitter Cards in blogdown. It put the following in layouts/partials/twitter-card.html:

Answer 1

I recommend you to use an absolute URL in this case:

image: "/post/foo/figure-html/some_image.png"

Note you should remove the directory name static (Why?).

Answer 2

Twitter cards do not support relative paths, and you have to use a fully-qualified HTTP(S) URL in the image tag. This is described in the troubleshooting post.