Update Twitter Cards documentation

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Twitter cards make it possible to attach images and post summaries to Tweets that link to your content. Summary Card meta tags have been added to `head.html` to support this, you just need to [validate and apply your domain](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards) to turn it on.
Here's an example of what a tweet to your site could look like if you activate Twitter Cards and include all the metas in your post's YAML.
![Twitter Card summary large image screenshot](http://mmistakes.github.io/so-simple-theme/images/twitter-card-summary-large-image.jpg)
#### Link Post Type
So Simple Theme now supports **link posts**, made famous by John Gruber. To activate just add `link: http://url-you-want-linked` to the post's YAML front matter and you're done.

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Post and page thumbnails work the same way. These are used by [Open Graph](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/) and [Twitter Cards](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards) meta tags found in `head.html`. If you don't assign a thumbnail the image you assigned to `site.owner.avatar` in `_config.yml will be used.
Here's an example of what a tweet to your site could look like if you activate Twitter Cards and include all the metas in your post's YAML.
![Twitter Card summary large image screenshot]({{ site.url }}/images/twitter-card-summary-large-image.jpg)
#### Videos
Video embeds are responsive and scale with the width of the main content block with the help of [FitVids](http://fitvidsjs.com/).