Add Instagram Photo Previews Back to Twitter with Zapier

It's perhaps the smallest problem in the world, but it's still annoying that Twitter doesn't show Instagram previews today. It's so easy to add Twitter card support to your site, it's almost surprising today for a link to not have a preview on Twitter. And yet, your Instagram Tweets still just show up as your description text and a link.

But you can fix that today, with a simple Zapier integration. Just click through the integration below, and you can link your Instagram account to Twitter, customize your Tweet's message, and turn it on. Then, the next time you post something to Instagram, don't tap the Twitter button—just wait a few minutes, and the picture, Instagram link, and description show up on your Twitter profile.

You'll save yourself one tap each time you post something on Instagram, and your Twitter followers will see your Instagram photo without having to click through your link—just like it should have worked already.

It's little things like this—being able to add your own "features" to apps you love and finding workarounds for "bugs" that'd otherwise likely never get fixed—that makes me love automation tools like Zapier so much.

Thoughts? @reply me on Twitter.