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Now that media cards don't include the headline, the first tweet in a thread should have the headline as status

For example: https://twitter.com/nyt_diff/status/1220299864220884994

Thread goes back to 17 Jan, so I would guess that's when this started..

Hey, I think it would be nifty if the bot's images came with alt text describing the before-and-after for users who can't view images.

It seems you can use create_media_metadata after media_upload to achieve this. Probably, something like Before: {old}. After: {new}. is the least confusing format to provide alt text in. The limit is 1000 characters.

For some changes in title and abstract, there are spurious similarities that make the diffs difficult to understand (for example https://twitter.com/nyt_diff/status/1353771665017221120).

Would a pull request that detected if, say, 30% or less of the original text was unchanged and replaced it with "-old-headline- new headline" be accepted?