Twitter Cards

X Corp., Bastrop, Texas, United States

With Twitter Cards, you can attach rich photos, videos and media experiences to tweets, helping to drive traffic to your website.

According to our data, Twitter Cards is the third most popular semantic markup technology on the web.
It has 55% of the semantic markup market share and is detected on 38.7% of all websites.

📊 Rankings and Market Share

🏆 Twitter Cards Awards

⚡ Sites Using Twitter Cards

We have data on 1,285,977 websites that use Twitter Cards semantic markup technology. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.

The highest rated site using Twitter Cards is microsoft.com.

#WebsiteRankCountryLanguage
1 microsoft.com #3 United States American English
2 linkedin.com #9 United States English
3 github.com #13 United States English
4 pinterest.com #15 English
5 bitly.com #17 American English
6 netflix.com #19 United States English
7 vimeo.com #23 United States English
8 adobe.com #28 United States English
9 yahoo.co.jp #31 Japan Japanese
10 flickr.com #32 English
11 blogger.com #33 United States English
12 naver.com #36 Korea Korean
13 soundcloud.com #40 Germany English
14 twitch.tv #42 United States English
15 linktr.ee #44 Australia English
16 paypal.com #45 United States American English
17 discord.com #46 United States English
18 patreon.com #47 United States English
19 wyze.com #49 English
20 shopify.com #51 Canada English

📈 Usage Statistics

Most of the sites that use Twitter Cards:

Most of the sites using Twitter Cards are from the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

  • United States 21.5%
  • Germany 7%
  • United Kingdom 6.8%
  • Japan 5.8%
  • France 4.5%
  • Spain 3.8%
  • Italy 3.5%
  • Netherlands 3.5%
  • Australia 3.4%
  • Other 40.2%

Most Twitter Cards users speak English, German, or Spanish.

  • English 55.4%
  • German 6.2%
  • Spanish 5.2%
  • Japanese 4.8%
  • French 4.1%
  • Italian 2.7%
  • Dutch 2.4%
  • Portuguese 2.4%
  • Russian 1.7%
  • Other 15.1%

Twitter Cards semantic markup technology is especially popular on .com and .org top-level domains.

  • .com 47%
  • .org 6.2%
  • .de 4%
  • .net 2.8%
  • .co.uk 2.4%
  • .com.au 2%
  • .it 1.9%
  • .nl 1.9%
  • .fr 1.5%
  • Other 30.3%

The primary market segments for websites utilizing Twitter Cards include business, online shopping, and blogs and wiki.

  • Business 18.4%
  • Online Shopping 7.6%
  • Blogs/Wiki 7.3%
  • Education/Reference 5.6%
  • Internet Services 5.4%
  • Entertainment 4.2%
  • Travel 4%
  • Health 3.4%
  • General News 3.4%
  • Other 40.7%

🕵️ Similar Technologies

These are some of the best Twitter Cards alternatives.

RankName
1
ARIA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A W3C technical specification that defines how to improve the accessibility of web content and applications, particularly those with dynamic interfaces and custom controls.
2
Open Graph
Menlo Park, California, United States

A web metadata standard that defines how webpages are described as structured objects for use in social graphs and enables their consistent representation.
4
JSON-LD
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A lightweight linked data format used to embed structured data into web pages.
5
oEmbed

A format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites.
6
SearchAction
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.

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💬 Frequently Asked Questions

What is the company behind Twitter Cards?

Twitter Cards is owned by X Corp., headquartered in Bastrop, Texas, United States.

Which country uses Twitter Cards the most?

The majority of Twitter Cards users are from the United States.

Who uses Twitter Cards?

According to our data, Twitter Cards is used on millions of sites, including microsoft.com, linkedin.com, and github.com.

Is Twitter Cards used on government websites?

Overall, we found Twitter Cards on 728 government sites in the United States.

Do academic institutions use Twitter Cards?

Yes, quite a few! In total, we know of 2,358 academic websites in the United States that use Twitter Cards.

How does Twitter Cards compare to the competition?

Twitter Cards is one of the most popular semantic markup technologies, second only to ARIA and Open Graph.

What are the alternatives to Twitter Cards?

Alternatives and possible competitors to Twitter Cards may include ARIA, Open Graph, and JSON-LD.

👉 See Also

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For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.