Card validator always fails with "Server error. Please try again." My or twitter's server? What's wrong?

froginthevalley · 2013-07-18T18:29:47.000Z

Please post the link here, we can’t help you without the link to your page, we have to test it in the validator too to help find the problem. Also, sometimes there might be some timeout depending on network traffic between our servers and yours, try again after waiting 10-15 minutes just to be sure.

Adding a robots.txt is not the way to solve most issues (except when your robots.txt disallows Twitterbot to crawl your pages).

alysonwonderlan · 2013-07-18T19:09:50.000Z

I continue to get ‘Server not available’ errors for http://www.nih.gov/science/brain/index.htm

I was able to get a card (without an image) on Tuesday, but since then, I have not been able to even generate a card - just server errors.

MathieuH · 2013-07-18T19:52:47.000Z

I’m trying to get a product card validated and I’m using http://www.jackyluxury.com/shop/jl1585a/ to test the card.
A couple of weeks ago I was able to get it working but now the tool just keeps giving me server errors.

tattygram · 2013-07-19T21:40:26.000Z

Same here. It used to work, now gallery cards don’t work at all. 99% of the time the validate tool throws errors. Every once in a while it works after many reloads.

never works on the important URL’s we need to work:

tattygram.com/tattoos
tattygram.com/durbmorrison < tons of usernames in this fashion that don’t work anymore
tattygram.com/tattoos/tagged/portrait
tattygram.com/tattoos/tagged/flowers
tattygram.com/tattoos/tagged/movies
etc…

I really wish someone would shed some light on this problem. They were super cool when they came out, now I’m just frustrated from our lame posts that should be gallery cards.

(we haven’t changed anything on our end since they stopped working.)

PLEASE FIX THIS

Filmarelu · 2013-07-20T01:07:31.000Z

please check this link http://koreandramar.com

OyeDecoder · 2013-07-23T07:23:47.000Z

I have created the summary card look, i got the error for image i.e. “Failed to get a proxied URL for image.” I have implemented rest of the meta tags in the home page of website and validated, it shows the server error for the website

website url: http://socialwavelength.com

Also, i tried using the same tags of Open Graph instead of creating new tags for Twitter Cards, its not fetching data.

Toutpost1 · 2013-07-25T16:26:25.000Z

For any URL on our site we get “Server error, please try again.”

Open Graph works just fine, has been working for a long time.

Here is an example: http://www.toutpost.com/d/1949/Cuda_vs_challenger

l_lewandowski · 2013-07-26T04:11:00.000Z

I have wrote a quick script that will automatically retry http://www.lemisolutions.co.nz/2013/07/twitter-card-validator-automatic-retry.html after few reties it eventually validates.

TecnoDaniel · 2013-07-27T23:42:03.000Z

Thanks @l_lewandowski I had the same issue and solved it with the script. Excellent!!

TecnoDaniel · 2013-07-28T15:29:00.000Z

Fellows, as I wrote above it worked fine with the script for retry the validator submittion several times and it allowed me to get one of my blogs registered using Twitter Cards, however, for my second blog which uses the same kind of web platform (Wordpress) it has been impossible to get the validation. It always shows the Server Error, TimeOut, Technic Problems, etc.

Could somebody from Twitter verify why it happens with my blog?

Please use the following link for check it out:
http://www.sysadmin.com.ve/instalar-posfix-como-servidor-de-correo/

Waiting for your very appreciated support.

jonahkirangi · 2013-07-29T00:28:39.000Z

How did you add robots.txt?

TecnoDaniel · 2013-07-29T00:45:43.000Z

You need to go into your web root folder using FTP and create a plane file named robots.txt where you just need to include:

User-agent: Twitterbot
Disallow:

Save it and you are ready!.

JogoPro · 2013-07-31T00:08:23.000Z

Having the same problem here, an example link:
http://jogopro.com/noticias/lancado-soul-gambler-jogo-brasileiro-financiado-atraves-do-kickstarter/

Always get “Server error, please try again.” and “Unable to render card preview” when trying to validate card. Already been trying for a while now, any help is appreciated! Thanks!

ggez44 · 2013-10-07T16:25:36.000Z

I’m having the same issue.

https://mixbit.com/v/3dkB1QPNojLz4elEGXcH7D

I have a robots.txt file, but keep getting “Server error, please try again.” error

eierund · 2014-02-13T07:12:42.000Z

We are having the same issues with every site on our server.
http://spotbotmedia.com/ncv/ for example.

eierund · 2014-02-13T07:13:06.000Z

Could you please look into:
http://spotbotmedia.com/ncv/

We are getting the same issue with all of our URLs.

PViajeros · 2014-03-18T22:05:57.000Z

Hi! having the same problem with a wordpress platform http://periodistasviajeros.com

rchoi · 2014-03-26T04:45:06.000Z

Sorry for the delay.

It appears you’ve gotten approval since.

Let me know if you have further questions.

ifkya1957gh · 2014-04-15T09:44:08.000Z

Hope you will all exercise restraint and retry posting your works by ensuring that the extension is properly put.

foodpornven · 2014-08-27T01:36:00.000Z

I can’t add my blog foodpornven.blogspot.com