To further improve the metatags for social media, I created a laravel artisan command to create a Twitter Card Image.

The recommended size for a Twitter Card image size should be 1024 pixels by 512 pixels.

<meta property="og:image" content="https://mywebsite.net/assets/opengraph/theogimage.jpg"/>
<meta property="og:image:width" content="1024"/>
<meta property="og:image:height" content="512"/>
<meta name="twitter:image" content="http://www.yoursite.com/yourimage.jpg"/>

To install the reuqired php mods I ran:

apt-get install php8.0-imagick
apt-get install php8.0-gd
composer require intervention/image

After you have installed Intervention Image, open your Laravel config file config/app.php and add the following lines.

In the $providers array add the service providers for this package.

Intervention\Image\ImageServiceProvider::class

Add the facade of this package to the $aliases array.

'Image' => Intervention\Image\Facades\Image::class

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Intervention\Image\ImageServiceProviderLaravelRecent"
php artisan storage:link
php artisan image:twittercard

And here is the code for the command:

Which creates an image like this:

To test the card use the twitter.com/validator

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