My site doesn't appear correctly in a Twitter Card

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whgatuva
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When you include a link to a web site in a tweet, Twitter tries to generate a "Card" with summary information of that web site.

When I refer to my new inmotion hosted site, uvasinklab.org, in a Tweet, the Card instead contains real estate stuff from the original Pavilion template. See here: https://twitter.com/UVASinkLab/status/842014207394643971

I tried adding Twitter Card Meta tags (https://dev.twitter.com/cards/types/summary) to the header.php file for this template (public_html/wp-content/themes/boldgrid-pavilion/templates/header/header.php), but it doesn't seem to have helped.

I would LOVE to get this fixed, since it's clear that some template dummy content has been kept in my new site.
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Hello Whgatuva, Sorry for the issues with the graphic that is pulled up when you add your URL in a tweet. These graphics are based on a standard called OG. It's all metadata added to your site. Believe it or not, one of the best places to see what's happening with it is with a tool from Facebook called the Facebook Debugger. I went ahead and put your URL through it to determine what was happening: Facebook debugger results for UVASinklab.org It tells you that you're missing an OG meta tag for a graphic. The nice thing is that the tool also refreshes the content of what should be scraped. So, in this case, it removed the old Pavilion graphics. I looked up the OpenGraph standard for Twitter and you can find that information here. Once you have the meta tags correctly set, then it should pull your desired graphics. I hope that helps to answer your question! If you require further assistance, please let us know! Regards, Arnel C.