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Twitter Annotation Proposal – Image

This is a proposal for a twitter annotation that I hope to be blessed by both the development community and twitter itself.

Image Namespace

Images are something commonly shared throughout twitter.  Something that would be fantastically idealistic would be embedding image data into twitter annotations.

Due to constraints, images should be resized to a lower-quality “preview”.  Possibly VGA or so?  A link to a privately hosted image should also be available.

Using the current preview information supplied by the twitter development team, I imagine that it would go something like this:

Code block
   
"image":
{
        "preview": "data here.. base64 etc.",
        "preview_encode": "base64", // Or whatever else floats your boat.  "bin" or "binary" for raw data.
        "full_src": "http://example.org/link/to/image.jpg"
}

Any additional thoughts on other information that should be included?  Maybe a title and description, or is that not needed?  Please, leave all of your thoughts and ideas in the comments!