diff --git a/internal/httpapi/server.go b/internal/httpapi/server.go
index c31419a..6fd2ae1 100644
--- a/internal/httpapi/server.go
+++ b/internal/httpapi/server.go
@@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ type linkCard struct {
 	Title       string `json:"title"`
 	Description string `json:"description"`
 	Image       string `json:"image"`
+	HTML        string `json:"html"`
 }
 
 // handleLinkCard fetches basic OpenGraph/Twitter card metadata (best-effort) and returns a small card.
@@ -246,9 +247,33 @@ func (s *Server) handleLinkCard(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		_ = json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(s.cardCache[raw])
 		return
 	}
+
+	// Special handling for X/Twitter posts via oEmbed
+	host := strings.ToLower(u.Host)
+	if (host == "x.com" || host == "twitter.com" || strings.HasSuffix(host, ".twitter.com")) && strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(u.Path), "/status/") {
+		oembed := "https://publish.twitter.com/oembed?omit_script=1&hide_thread=1&dnt=1&align=center&url=" + url.QueryEscape(raw)
+		client := &http.Client{Timeout: 8 * time.Second}
+		reqTw, _ := http.NewRequestWithContext(r.Context(), http.MethodGet, oembed, nil)
+		respTw, errTw := client.Do(reqTw)
+		if errTw == nil && respTw.StatusCode >= 200 && respTw.StatusCode < 300 {
+			defer respTw.Body.Close()
+			var o struct{ HTML string `json:"html"` }
+			if err := json.NewDecoder(respTw.Body).Decode(&o); err == nil && o.HTML != "" {
+				card := linkCard{URL: raw, HTML: o.HTML}
+				s.cardCache[raw] = card
+				s.cardCacheExp[raw] = time.Now().Add(24 * time.Hour)
+				w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+				_ = json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(card)
+				return
+			}
+		}
+		// fallthrough to generic fetch if oEmbed fails
+	}
+
 	// fetch minimal HTML and extract tags using a tolerant HTML parser
 	client := &http.Client{Timeout: 10 * time.Second}
 	req, _ := http.NewRequestWithContext(r.Context(), http.MethodGet, raw, nil)
+	req.Header.Set("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; sojuboy/1.0)")
 	resp, err := client.Do(req)
 	if err != nil {
 		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusBadGateway)
@@ -261,6 +286,16 @@ func (s *Server) handleLinkCard(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		_, _ = w.Write([]byte("bad status"))
 		return
 	}
+	// If image content-type, return as image card
+	if ct := strings.ToLower(resp.Header.Get("Content-Type")); strings.HasPrefix(ct, "image/") {
+		card := linkCard{URL: raw, Image: raw}
+		s.cardCache[raw] = card
+		s.cardCacheExp[raw] = time.Now().Add(24 * time.Hour)
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+		_ = json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(card)
+		return
+	}
+
 	// limit to 256KB and parse tokens
 	limited := http.MaxBytesReader(w, resp.Body, 262144)
 	doc, err := xhtml.Parse(limited)
diff --git a/internal/httpapi/static/app.js b/internal/httpapi/static/app.js
index c530594..8acbf0f 100644
--- a/internal/httpapi/static/app.js
+++ b/internal/httpapi/static/app.js
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ function processLinks(scope){ const links = scope.querySelectorAll('a[href]:not(
   // Fetch and render card
   fetch('/api/linkcard?url='+encodeURIComponent(a.href)).then(r=>r.json()).then(card=>{
     if(!card) return;
-    if(card.title||card.description||card.image){
+    if(card.title||card.description||card.image||card.html){
       const c=document.createElement('div'); c.className='card'; var html='';
       if(card.image){ html += '<div><img src="'+card.image+'" alt="" style="max-width:160px;max-height:120px;object-fit:cover;border-radius:.25rem"></div>'; }
       html += '<div style="flex:1;margin-left:.5rem">';
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ function processLinks(scope){ const links = scope.querySelectorAll('a[href]:not(
       const row = document.createElement('div'); row.style.display='flex'; row.style.alignItems='flex-start'; row.style.gap='.5rem'; row.innerHTML = html;
       c.appendChild(row);
       c.querySelectorAll('img').forEach(img=> img.addEventListener('load', ()=> pinBottomMulti()));
+      if(card.html){ const wrap=document.createElement('div'); wrap.innerHTML=card.html; c.appendChild(wrap); }
       // Summary control row
       const ctrl = document.createElement('div'); ctrl.style.marginTop='.25rem';
       const btn = document.createElement('button'); btn.type='button'; btn.title='Summarize this link'; btn.textContent='\u25B6'; btn.style.padding='0 .4rem'; btn.style.fontSize='.9rem';