Why is an old image or old text showing up when I share my event on X (formerly Twitter)?

All of the social media platforms such as Meta (Facebook), X (Twitter), and LinkedIn "cache" the initial images or text associated with a website.  Cache is a technical term that basically means a temporary save. Caching speeds up load times and has many benefits for web users but it can mean that a social media platform is 'remembering' old information that it stored from a previous share.  

Fortunately, clearing the cache is easy and each of the platforms provides a method for you (or us) to update the image and text pulled.  

Here is a helpful article summarizing the best way to accomplish this on all of the platforms. 

For X:

To update the 'website card' on X, simply go to the Card Validator Tool

Enter the web address for your Swell Site

Click Preview Card

Here is an example:

Meta (formerly Facebook) and LinkedIn have similar processes.

Why is an old image or old text showing up when I share my event on LinkedIn?

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