Twitter cards now failing on Wordpress

BrianRoemmele · 2017-03-15T18:10:07.116Z

Hello,

I had twitter cards working via the twitter plug-in. It has stopped working although I have changed no aspect of the plug-ins or updates.

Here is an example page where it was working (images now gone):

@ReadMultiplex – 14 Feb 17

Does thousands of skills make Amazon Echo more valuable?

How does Alexa knowing thousands of skills make Amazon Echo more valuable? I fear that under the current infrastructure created by Amazon for ASK (Alexa Skill Kit) apps, the ballooning number of Skills will devalue the service. There are a number...

Here is an example where it stopped working:

@ReadMultiplex – 14 Mar 17

Voice First Systems Do Not Need To Answer Every Question. These 100 Are The Most...

What Was The Question? Let Me Google That. The most popular functional Google search terms (search terms that are not about companies, people or events) show a deep insight about the most popular things people look for on a recurring basis. This...

Error:

The card for your website will look a little something like this!

Unable to render Card preview

INFO: Page fetched successfully
WARN: No metatags found

I have removed all plugins to test and it still produces the same errors.

Please help.

Thank you.

BrianRoemmele · 2017-03-15T18:11:16.926Z

Stunned that it just rendered in the posting above.

Still fails in the card validator.

Still fails in Tweets.

andypiper · 2017-03-16T12:19:25.312Z

$ curl -v -A Twitterbot http://readmultiplex.com/2017/03/14/voice-first-systems-do-not-need-to-answer-every-question-these-100-are-the-most-important/
*   Trying 107.180.57.118...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to readmultiplex.com (107.180.57.118) port 80 (#0)
> GET /2017/03/14/voice-first-systems-do-not-need-to-answer-every-question-these-100-are-the-most-important/ HTTP/1.1
> Host: readmultiplex.com
> User-Agent: Twitterbot
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
< Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:13:21 GMT
< Server: Apache/2.4.25
< X-Powered-By: PHP/5.6.30
< Vary: User-Agent
< Content-Length: 0
< Connection: close
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
<
* Curl_http_done: called premature == 0
* Closing connection 0

Looks like your site is failing when pages are fetched by Twitterbot. Read our pinned troubleshooting post.

BrianRoemmele · 2017-03-16T19:08:13.630Z

andypiper:

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

Hi Andy,

Thank you. The site seems to be running, do you have some insights on why this error will happen?

Facebook cards and other cards seem to work.

Please let me know.

andypiper · 2017-03-16T19:09:15.418Z

I do not, it seems like the kind of thing you’d need to dig into your logs to understand. I can load pages in a browser but not pull them with a custom user-agent in curl.

system · 2017-03-30T19:09:40.413Z

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