Blue play button showing in iOS twitter card video playback

[BrandonRRomano]

I’m experiencing the same issue, and it’s only occurring on iOS.

Here’s an offending URL:

https://twitter.com/joinampathy/status/745346394957975552

[alexbussey]

Hi, @andypiper. Sorry about that, must have given you the wrong link.

http://alexbussey.com/twitter/twitter-https.html

Yes, we’re only seeing this behavior on Twitter’s native iOS app. It does not happen on Twitter’s native Android app, nor does it happen on third-party Twitter iOS apps.

[andypiper]

Thanks, looking into this internally, but this is a bit unusual based on the small number of cases we’ve had reported so far, so bear with us.

[alexbussey]

Appreciate it. Thank you, @andypiper !

[andypiper]

Current status is that I’m talking with our iOS client team on this issue. I don’t have a resolution and cannot offer any ETA for a fix but please be assured that this is being looked into. Thank you all for your patience.

[joinampathy]

Hello!

Thanks @andypiper - we are anxiously waiting a resolution and are standing by if this is something we can adjust for! Thanks again for your help!

[joinampathy]

Bumping this up so that it doesn’t auto-close unresolved.

[andypiper]

Appreciate that. This has been raised but I’m unable to provide a timeline for a resolution - the iOS team is aware.

[andypiper]

We’d love to get some additional community help in diagnosing this issue.

Are those of you who are seeing the issue able to share more information? We’re looking for information on client / app version, OS, connection type (wifi or mobile), etc.

Thanks!

[alexbussey]

Hi Andy,

Client: Twitter for iOS v 6.62.1
iOS: 10.0.1 (but was happening with iOS 9 as well)
Model: iPhone 6S Plus (but was happening on latest-gen iPod touch, as well)
Connection Type: Both WiFi and Cellular

Hope that helps!

[joinampathy]

Hi @andypiper

Client: Twitter for iOS v 6.62.1
iOS: 10.0.1 (but was happening with iOS 9 as well)
Model: iPhone 6
Connection Type: Both WiFi and Cellular

[system]

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[andypiper]

[andypiper]

The iOS client team has investigated and has been unable to reproduce. Can you provide specific examples of current Tweets and/or URLs that exhibit this problem? Otherwise we will have to close this out.

[joinampathy]

Hi @andypiper …

Still getting the same issue. Latest iOS and Twitter client on iPhone 6

Ampathy (joinampathy)

cc @alexbussey

[alexbussey]

Hi @andypiper:

The behavior is still occurring for me.

URL Shared: http://alexbussey.com/twitter/twitter-https.html
URL of Tweet: https://twitter.com/alexjwtest/status/797137798352502789
Device: iPhone 6S Plus, running iOS 10.1.1
Twitter for iOS v6.66 (really?)

A screenshot of video playing but with blue play button is attached.

[andypiper]

Thanks I will ask them to take another look.

[nathanfulkerson]

I’d just like to chime in to say I’m also experiencing this issue.

URL Shared: https://byu.li/7Lr/player
URL of Tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/rurri_test/status/786480298993209344
Device: iPhone 6, iOS 10.0.1
Twitter version: 6.66

Screenshot:

[hatrungttha]

Hi @andypiper ,
What is the status on this issue?
I still have this problem on iOS, I don’t know if it is because of our url or a bug in twitter native iOS app.

[SND_TST]

I am experiencing this as well:

Here is the most recent tweet where this occurs on my iOS device:

SNDTST (SND_TST)

Here are the meta tags I’m defining in the linked page:

<meta name=twitter:title content="Lemmy Koopa">
<meta name=twitter:image content=https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/media.randomvictory.com/victory/5886d552e0bdfe067840ee41/frame-00001.png>
<meta name=twitter:image:alt content="Lemmy Koopa">
<meta name=twitter:card content=player>
<meta name=twitter:url content=https://randomvictory.com/victory/5886d552e0bdfe067840ee41>
<meta name=twitter:player content=https://randomvictory.com/v/5886d552e0bdfe067840ee41>
<meta name=twitter:player:stream content=https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/media.randomvictory.com/victory/5886d552e0bdfe067840ee41/moment.mp4>
<meta name=twitter:player:stream:content_type content=video/mp4>
<meta name=twitter:player:height content=224>
<meta name=twitter:player:width content=256>

If I don’t specify the player:stream and player:stream:content_type then it defaults to the player url which works. Still native streams work better in apps that read the Twitter Card information so I would prefer to use the player:stream