meta description to long?

Hi,

I use the sharethis component to share via social media.
I noticed that trying to share a specific event gave an error on sharing on twitter and facebook: URI to long.
I took this up with the support department of sharethis.
It turned out that the meta description is used to give context on the tweet or facebook.
The meta description should only be one or two sentences long but when I browse the page source of an event, then I notice that the meta description is the total text of the event.

As it turns out this is not compliant to the Open Graph protocol, the meta :description tag should only be one or two sentences.
Ref: ogp.me/

So the solution is not in ShareThis but in your component.

Can this be changed?

regards,
Ruud.

*bump*

Hi Ruud

At the moment, the extension use description for meta description tag. If you want to remove it, please open the file components/com_eventbooking/views/event/view.html.php, find the code below and remove it :

Regards,

Tuan

You can use the short description too to reduce the length of the meta description - but this only works, if your users wrote a really short description