Twitter Cards: questions, bugs, problems, comments

RyanKingo · 2012-10-23T21:39:11.000Z

Just figured out my problem, I applied for the domain without the www and it needed that. It works when I take it off buy the link does not go to my site and the site needs the www.

Just applied for the domains with the www on them.

CiroArtigot · 2012-10-24T10:24:02.000Z

now is working ok, thanks for all.
I am really impressed and happy!

thanks

tomuky · 2012-10-24T13:00:59.000Z

I’ve gotten approval for my domain but it seems to not be working. I get this message when I test it in the preview tool: “Internal Error. Most likely an fetcher error.” I read the other comments and I’m thinking it’s because I didn’t submit the request with www. so I resubmitted my URL with www. in it.

Not sure if there’s anything you can do for me unless you can allow both URL’s to properly display twitter cards. Thanks!

URL: http://LetsBanter.net
Resubmitted: http://www.LetsBanter.net

TeeSawShirts · 2012-10-24T13:18:33.000Z

i think the server might be down at the moment. We’ve had fully functional twitter cards and we’re having the same error this morning.

rastavibesnet · 2012-10-24T21:00:00.000Z

We’ve just been approved for www.rastavibes.net … wow! that’s amazing, i love this new function in tweeter that expand a tweet in such an interesting way.
ThnX @froginthevalley and all those who contribute to twitter to make it a better place.

P.S : maybe it would be useful to put an explicit text explaining to ask for the domain with the www or an * in the form @ https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/preview and in the doc @ https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards

zcox · 2012-10-25T19:49:00.000Z

@froginthevalley Thanks for investigating, did you discover anything? We have noticed one pattern: tweets like these always have the photo card working:

twitter.com

Heather Moten (hmoten316)

My game day is now OFFICIAL! I just snapped a pic of my Pepsi and Frito Lay products and sent it to game@pepsico.com a pngr.it/nSiXOO

5:36 PM - 25 Oct 2012

twitter.com

CARMEN (lovecats8)

My game day is now OFFICIAL! I just snapped a pic of my Pepsi and Frito Lay products and sent it to game@pepsico.com a pngr.it/1OIfNT

9:38 AM - 25 Oct 2012

But no other tweets have photo cards enabled:

twitter.com

Zach Cox (zcox)

King Hipster Dew pngr.it/AXt6P2 @mtn_dew

12:57 PM - 25 Oct 2012

twitter.com

Jamie Thompson (Jamie_Thompson)

Windsor Castle pngr.it/auCcW4

12:14 PM - 25 Oct 2012

https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=pngr&src=typd

Is Twitter selectively enabling/disabling our photo cards based on tweet content?

hiiplayguitar · 2012-10-25T20:28:50.000Z

Yep, I may have fallen into the same trap as the others. Got fullcompass.com confirmed a couple weeks ago. Just resubmitted as www.fullcompass.com in hopes that fixes the problem. Maybe change “example.com” to “www.example.com” in the submission form?

jannonfodder · 2012-10-27T01:34:12.000Z

Just started taking a look at Twitter cards today and whipped something up to try it out, but I’m getting the generic “Looks like something is technically wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.” error.

So then I just tried putting the summary card example from the documentation (the nytimes example) into the meta tags box on the preview tool, but even that doesn’t work. Am I missing something or is the preview tool broken?

wac6 · 2012-10-27T16:23:01.000Z

Twitter cards have been working for me for a couple of weeks or so (Hooray! I love them), but this morning my normal automated tweet of a new blog post is not showing a Twitter card. is the system down or have there been changes to the requirements? Blog is wac6.com.

TomOnTheRoof · 2012-10-28T10:06:40.000Z

The Preview Tool appears broken. My code validated just a few days ago but gives an error now… Also another URL which is supposed to have Cards already enabled showed an error.

brennen · 2012-10-28T20:09:18.000Z

Card preview still seems to be broken. Like @firstshowing, I’m getting

Looks like something is technically wrong.
Please try again in a few minutes.

regardless of input, including the provided sample markup. Based on googling, this seems to have been going on for weeks now.

ciudadanoB · 2012-10-28T21:45:20.000Z

Yeah, I’m having the same problem with the Preview Tool the whole day…
“Looks like something is technically wrong.
Please try again in a few minutes.”

lenkid · 2012-10-29T18:20:17.000Z

I’m also getting “Looks like something is technically wrong.
Please try again in a few minutes.”. I used example tags from your docs and still no dice =(

davidolutoye · 2012-10-29T19:21:19.000Z

pls can some help me with hw to upload my picture .thanks

lenkid · 2012-10-30T01:20:54.000Z

Making progress. the Twitter Card Preview site was working for maybe 3-4 hours, but now I’m getting an error “Failed to get proxied image URL.”

Also, I think the “twitter:site” meta tag is now required. Can you confirm this?

Thanks
Mike

jannonfodder · 2012-10-30T11:17:32.000Z

That definitely seems to be the case. Added in the “twitter:site” and everything works all of a sudden…well, besides that proxied image URL thing

mikedelorenzo · 2012-10-30T16:01:37.000Z

Any update to this issue? Our cards are still not working properly.

Uzairktk · 2012-10-30T16:01:50.000Z

Okay. So i am not alone. Getting the “Internal Error. Most likely an fetcher error.” when I try to preview the URL it with the tool. and the proxied image URL image error when i try it with meta tags.

jameson_test · 2012-10-30T23:34:00.000Z

similar error as the above, funny story the preview is broken unless you include a “’” that’s not a “’” or a “`” it’s an special apostrophe alt-0146.

<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary">
  <meta name="twitter:title" content="Title with a ’">
  <meta name="twitter:description" content="weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer">
  <meta name="twitter:url" content="https://www.twitter.com">

vs

<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary">
  <meta name="twitter:title" content="Title with a '">
  <meta name="twitter:description" content="weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer">
  <meta name="twitter:url" content="https://www.twitter.com">

zcox · 2012-10-31T03:51:29.000Z

Hi @froginthevalley we’re still seeing the same problems with our photo cards not being displayed. Any idea what the problem is?