Twitter card for my blog is not working

Fortresspress · 2014-04-14T15:01:00.000Z

Hi,
We were just approved for the Twitter product card, but no card shows up when we post a link. Could you please let us know what the problem is?
Here’s a link to a Tweet: https://twitter.com/Fortresspress/status/455718303986491393
Here’s a link to our webpage:http://store.fortresspress.com/store/productgroup/662/Shepherds-of-the-Empire-Germany-Conservative-Protestant-Leadership-1888-1919?c=285717

Another question: will twitter cards still appear if using a link shortening tool like Bitly?

romainhuet · 2014-04-15T10:49:44.000Z

Hello Fortresspress,

I tried to look at the source of your page but I don’t see any [node:15978] markup. Could you please try again after putting the proper tags in place?

Yes, Twitter Cards still work with shortening tools like Bitly since we are fetching the information from the final destination.

romainhuet · 2014-04-15T10:51:14.000Z

Abhishek, I just tried sharing an article from your website on Twitter and the Summary Cards work well for me. Please let us know if you have any further questions.

iOSXtreme · 2014-04-15T16:04:21.000Z

Hi, we’re still waiting for the approval since a few weeks. Could we know if it is anything wrong? Here is a link to one of our posts. Thanks so much. http://www.iosxtreme.com/2014/04/15/lg-proveedor-pantallas-iwatch/

rchoi · 2014-04-25T06:16:23.000Z

Hi IOSXtreme,

Looks like the card renders. The image does not, however. The image is:

And your robots.txt (http://www.iosxtreme.com/robots.txt) is:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

Sitemap: http://www.iosxtreme.com/sitemap.xml.gz

It may have to do with robots.txt and allowing crawling to your assets.

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/troubleshooting#robots

eatnabout · 2014-04-26T00:26:00.000Z

Hi, our blog had been using Twitter cards with no problems up until the past week or so. Our cards validate fine for all meta tags for all the URLs we are tweeting, but the tweets no longer display View Summary option on the twitter feed homepage. I have the following in our Robots.txt:

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
User-agent: Twitterbot
Disallow:

We are using Yoast plugin and Large Summary Cards, which we are approved for. Here’s an example URL that we currently have at the top of our feed with no summary option showing:

eatnabout.com

Rudi’s Gluten-Free Tortillas Recipe & Review – Eat 'n About

May is Celiac Awareness Month, so to help raise awareness we are bringing our readers who suffer from celiac disease a delicious gluten-free recipe made with Rudi's Gluten-Free tortillas. Plus we've created a brand new gluten-free category! We were...

When viewing the individual tweet the summary shows automatically:

twitter.com

Eat 'n About (eatnabout)

#glutenfree recipe for #celiacawarenessmonth using @rudisglutenfree tortillas. #vegan too! eatnabout.com/2014/04/22/rud…

10:41 PM - 25 Apr 2014

However when viewed on the feed homepage it doesn’t show the option to View Summary:

https://twitter.com/eatnabout

We were recently switched to the new style twitter homepage. Are twitter cards not supported for it? Not sure what the problem is here. Thanks!

yccharterschool · 2014-05-01T20:35:27.000Z

I’m having a similar issue. I applied for twitter cards, input meta data in my blog’s theme, was approved for www.yccs.us and I linked to the site in a pair of posts but no twitter cards. Please advise

rchoi · 2014-05-05T21:19:16.000Z

Hi there!

Cards don’t show up auto-expanded in the timeline yet. I think we might have had different behavior on the user timeline, and I’ll follow up with the team about that.

eatnabout · 2014-05-06T03:01:19.000Z

Hi Ryan and thank you for your response.

The problem is not that they’re not auto-expanded in the timeline. The problem is that in the new Twitter timeline layout there’s no option to expand at all. The “View Summary” option that existed on the old timeline layout is not displaying, so there’s no way to view the Twitter cards.

I checked out YCCS’s Twitter feed below, and he has the new layout too with the same behaviour. Hopefully this can be fixed, otherwise there wouldn’t be a whole lot of point to Twitter cards anymore. I’ve had better interaction lately when I just post links with photos instead.

rchoi · 2014-05-07T06:44:52.000Z

Understood, and thanks for clarifying for me.

On the profile, we’re working on fixes to what you mentioned specifically. It may take some time, and we’re working to get it more clear what the expand behavior indicator/experience should be.

eatnabout · 2014-05-09T17:11:33.000Z

Thanks Ryan, hope the fix comes soon; Twitter cards are great when they’re working!

kavalczuk · 2014-05-14T11:33:55.000Z

Hi there. Our twitter cards are suddenly dead as well, while the site is approved and validation passes. An example - https://twitter.com/kidsmusicru/status/465011958828519424 and http://kidsmusic.info/news/show/10296 respectively; could someone please assist?

romainhuet · 2014-05-21T11:35:16.000Z

Hi Віценька,

I see you have both a Summary Card and an image in the Tweet you mentioned, so the picture takes precedence here and is displayed below the Tweet. Could you please elaborate on what your issue is?

Thanks,
Romain

kavalczuk · 2014-05-22T12:41:01.000Z

Well, summary card gives more than just image, so I was expecting to see both. But if that’s an expected behavior, I’m fine with that, thanks.

SimonNWalker · 2014-06-16T22:19:19.000Z

We are also having issues with the Twitter cards.

Here’s a good page to check for the required tags.

TheSavvyTechs – 16 Jun 14

Microsoft Games with Gold for June 16th 2014 [UPDATED] - TheSavvyTechs

Download the latest free Microsoft Games with Gold for the XBox One and XBox 360 for June 16th 2014

We have a couple of sites, both approved for Twitter Cards and neither of them appear to be working.
Our posts are auto tweeted form Wordpress using JetPack.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

Lernabit · 2014-06-24T19:43:49.000Z

I’m having a problem. I was approved for Twitter cards for products on my site. Of my 3 products, only 1 Twitter card is working. The other two say they can’t find the image, but when I copy the image URL directly from the meta tag and paste it into my browser, I can see the image just fine, so I’m pretty sure the image src attribute is working.

The Twitter card for this page works: http://www.lernabit.com/product/view/the-big-bang
And this one does not work: http://www.lernabit.com/product/view/build-a-website-from-start-to-finish

Exact same image URL structure, but one works, the other doesn’t. Am I missing something? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

jbulava · 2014-07-07T01:23:14.000Z

Hi Simon, the two required meta tags for the summary with large image card are twitter:title and twitter:description. Both of these are missing from the URL above, which is why the card cannot render (I only see twitter:site, twitter:domain, twitter:creator, and twitter:image:src).

I’m not too familiar with JetPack, but hopefully that leads you in the right direction.

SimonAntony_Rog · 2015-01-21T17:48:48.210Z

This feature does not appear to work - as per everyone else in this thread, I’ve followed the guidelines, and even been able to successfully validate here https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator (after Twitter validator crashed the first time lol just refreshed page and saw the card fine)

But nothing on Twitter when I share it. Although undocumented, I see developers of Twitter at least had the sense to post here that you have to apply - this page is now broken and gives 404 to let everyone know, so the question is - is these even still a feature or is it now totally foo-bar’d?

Any advice greatly appreciated!

GautamBudhaNath · 2015-02-03T12:28:00.514Z

Hi Rchoi,

CAN you help with my intigration. I am getting these messages:

INFO:  Page fetched successfully
INFO:  2 metatags were found
ERROR: No card found (Card error)

I am trying on http://newshunt.com

Thanks,
Gautam

rchoi · 2015-03-26T06:37:29.973Z

On http://newshunt.com/, there is no twitter:card meta tag.