Twitter Cards Stopped validating

[JeffMisenti]

Description of issue:
Hello, as of Thursday last week our twitter cards are not carrying images even though all the required metadata is in the page. Example URL below…

URL affected (must be public):

Beyoncé reportedly sells Manhattan apartment for nearly $10M - theGrio

**[Troubleshooting steps

We have gone through all of your documentation to be sure that the metadata required is present in the page. If you then use the Twitter Card validation tool you will see the following:

INFO: Page fetched successfully
WARN: No metatags found
WARN: this card is redirected to http://thegrio.com/2017/10/03/beyonce-apartment-manhattan/

Please let me know if you can help us locate the root cause of this issue.

[andypiper]

First troubleshooting step - what happens when you fetch the page as Twitterbot?

$ curl -v -A Twitterbot  -L  http://thegrio.com/2017/10/03/beyonce-apartment-manhattan
*   Trying 23.111.131.106...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to thegrio.com (23.111.131.106) port 80 (#0)
> GET /2017/10/03/beyonce-apartment-manhattan HTTP/1.1
> Host: thegrio.com
> User-Agent: Twitterbot
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< X-Powered-By: PHP/5.6.31
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
< Location: http://thegrio.com/2017/10/03/beyonce-apartment-manhattan/
< X-LiteSpeed-Cache: hit
< Content-Length: 0
< Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 18:35:54 GMT
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
< Server: LiteSpeed
< X-Powered-By: PleskLin
< Connection: close
<
* Closing connection 0
* Issue another request to this URL: 'http://thegrio.com/2017/10/03/beyonce-apartment-manhattan/'
* Hostname thegrio.com was found in DNS cache
*   Trying 23.111.131.106...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to thegrio.com (23.111.131.106) port 80 (#1)
> GET /2017/10/03/beyonce-apartment-manhattan/ HTTP/1.1
> Host: thegrio.com
> User-Agent: Twitterbot
> Accept: */*
>
^[[A< HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
< X-Powered-By: PHP/5.6.31
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
< Link: <http://thegrio.com/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
< Link: <http://thegrio.com/?p=340522>; rel=shortlink
< X-LiteSpeed-Cache: hit
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 18:35:55 GMT
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
< Server: LiteSpeed
< X-Powered-By: PleskLin
< Connection: close
<

Looks like that HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error will be your issue. I can only assume something changed with your hosting, if this worked previously.

[system]

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