Instagram will now allow image previews on Twitter

Instagram will now allow image previews on Twitter, the company announced alongside several other updates on their blog. 

The new initiative is aimed at improving the ways users’ content can appear outside of Instagram.

“We heard your feedback and want to make it easier for you to grow your audience and get discovered by better previewing your content in more places,” the post read.

Image previews will now appear in your Tweet when sharing Instagram posts from public accounts to Twitter. This highlights your content and shows people what they’ll see when they click your link.

How Instagram previews on Twitter work

For the preview of Instagram post on Twitter, the Instagram account needs to be public. If you include a link to your instagram post in your tweet, an image preview will be shown as a Twitter Card with a thumbnail in the tweet. If you choose to share to Twitter from Instagram, the caption from the post will appear in addition to the image preview.

Clicking the link of the preview on Twitter will bring you directly to the post on Instagram. All types of Feed posts, like Photos, Videos, Carousels and Reels, will preview when shared to Twitter. Stories won’t show up as previews on Twitter for now.

In addition to sharing previews on Twitter, you can also embed your Instagram profile on a website. We’ve enabled posts from public accounts to be embedded on external websites in the past—now, you can share previews of your profile and up to six of your most recent images to encourage people to view more.