Twitter Cards are not loading properly for some articles

lbolbr · 2015-12-13T13:33:35.176Z

We have an issue loading the twitter card with large image. Some of them are loading the image but some of them won’t. I have checked it with the validator: https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator

INFO: Page fetched successfully
INFO: 23 metatags were found
INFO: twitter:card = summary_large_image tag found
INFO: Card loaded successfully

Please check the below example (I am using the WordPress Jet-pack plugin to post the twitter feed automatically to Twitter account)

Lanka Business Online – 12 Dec 15

Sri Lanka computer literacy at 27-pct in 1H 2015

Dec 12, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s computer literacy for the first half of 2015 is 26.8 percent compared to 25.1 percent reported in 2014, the Department of Census and Statistics said. The computer l…

Lanka Business Online – 11 Dec 15

Sri Lanka female labor force participation could boost productivity: Kvintradze

Dec 11, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka needs labor market reforms including boosting of female labor force participation rate, a senior International Monetary Fund official said. “If you look at labo…

andypiper · 2015-12-14T09:38:45.604Z

It looks like Twitterbot does not have access to the directory where your images are located, according to you site’s robots.txt file.

lbolbr · 2015-12-14T15:05:00.687Z

Thanks andypiper

I have added this line to the robots.txt file, hope this is correct

User-agent: Twitterbot
Disallow: *

Allow: /images
Allow: /archives

andypiper · 2015-12-14T15:27:45.823Z

The best guidance on the contents of robots.txt is noted in the troubleshooting guide. As it states there too, you may need to wait for up to a week for cached information to be recrawled.