I've added what I think are the correct meta tags to my site, but am getting an error in the validator.
Here's the URL I'm running through the validator: http://www.raptorsrepublic.com/2013/10/09/practice-recap-valanciunas-english-cumulative-talent-ross-laid-back/
Here's a screenshot of the error: http://i.imgur.com/eKIVQvQ.png
Here are the twitter-related meta tags in the page:
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<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary"> -
<meta name="twitter:domain" content="raptorsrepublic.com"> -
<meta name="twitter:url" content="http://www.raptorsrepublic.com/2013/10/09/practice-recap-valanciunas-english-cumulative-talent-ross-laid-back/"> -
<meta name="twitter:site" content="@raptorsrepublic"> -
<meta name="twitter:title" content="Practice Recap, Valanciunas’ English, Cumulative Talent, Ross Laid Back? "> -
<meta name="twitter:description" content="Recapping the practice, looking back at some wings and debating whether the current 'big three' is the best one we've had in years, and some Valanciunas and Ross talk, including a GIF or two."/> -
<meta property="twitter:image" content="http://www.raptorsrepublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ross.jpg"/> -
<meta name="twitter:creator" content="@CornerSniper">
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Thanks for reporting, we will investigate.
Please Help. I add the correct meta tags but am getting an error un validator http://www.diariodebolsillo.com.pa/node/904
Same here
My photo card was working fine till few hours ago, suddenly no twitter card is displayed and when i tried the validator it says error although nothing has changed in the meta tags!
My website is:
http://aa-tube.blogspot.com
its working now on twitter
I think the issue is gone and the card is back to normal but still some problem with the validator that should be fixed
Nope, still not working for the case described in this ticket.
@raptorsrepublic,
Can you try adding this to your page and trying again?
Sorry, adding what to my page?
Sorry go to this page and look for the META tag with Content-Type
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/troubleshooting
Thanks for the tip. I updated the code and tried the validator again, still did not work and getting the same error. Would it be worth mentioning that the site is hosted in Germany with Hetzner?
After some heroic investigation on our engineering side, we found what might be the cause.
It turns out, our fetcher does some canonization of URLS, transforming http://www.raptorsrepublic.com/2013/10/09/practice-recap-valanciunas-english-cumulative-talent-ross-laid-back/ into http://www.raptorsrepublic.com/2013/10/09/practice-recap-valanciunas-english-cumulative-talent-ross-laid-back (Note the missing trailing slash on the second one.)
When I type the above no-trailing-slash URL in a browser, I get an empty page. Hence, the "Invalid Card type".
I also noticed that you're hosting a WordPress site. When I look at other Wordpress sites, I see it handle the no-trailing-slash gracefully by redirecting to the trailing slash version. Here are some examples:
http://metro.co.uk/2013/10/15/jimmy-savile-in-his-own-sick-words-police-release-transcripts-4147828
http://snoopdogg.com/2013/10/15/nemo-hoes-interviews-rob-dyrdek-on-the-new-ggn
http://www.charitywater.org/blog/get-water-game
Again, all redirect to the same URL with a trailing slash.
I can ask the engineers to take a look, but I know that may take some time. So I wonder, do you happen to know why your WordPress site is different than other ones, and is there something different in the configuration we could change to have it gracefully redirect like other wordpress sites?
Know it's maybe not the most helpful, but I want to get you up and running soon -- know you've been patient.
Thanks a ton!
Awesome! That was it. Working perfectly now. Just submitted an approval request.
Great to hear, and sorry for the delay. Any pointers as to what was going on with the trailing /, so all of our other WordPress users who face the same problem can learn?
Thanks again for following up!
Ryan
I'm getting like this too. ( example's URL: http://www.dek-d.com/activities/33117/ )
Please help.
Also getting this error today.
Sample URL: http://www.misterjonjon.com/2013/10/singtel-globe-samsung-partnership.html
Sample Tweet: https://twitter.com/jonjongoco/status/388172827666296832
I'm seeing this issue too - the validator is reporting "Invalid card type." for sites that definitely have correct meta data, eg. NY Times (sample URL: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/twitter-discloses-its-i-p-o-plans/)
Thanks for the responses and issues raised. Our fetcher was on the fritz on and off in the last 24 hours. It's mostly OK.
@raptorsrepublic, I'm still seeing the same issue for you. I'll keep investigating your particular case.
The validator allows me to request an approval now but it is automatically rejected by email ?
I don't have any idea to do now.
example's URL:
http://www.dek-d.com/education/33118/
http://www.dek-d.com/board/view/3067762/
http://writer.dek-d.com/puntanan/story/view.php?id=884612
It's happening to me as well
http://www.agencyspotter.com/experiencerethink
Invalid card type.
It looks like this instance works. Please feel free to try again.
Resolved. Thanks!
Hi Stephen!
Do you know what specifically worked, so others can try the same thing? (Or was it just re-trying?)
Thanks!
Could the people that had there issue resolved give some feedback on what resolved the issue. I am having similar problems and am curious to the solutions.
I just tried validating for my site but am getting Invalid card type. http://www.eatcookexplore.com
Is the validator not working again?
Hi there. It may take a couple attempts, but it'll show your card and a submit button.
BTW, you'll need to change your twitter:creator tag to a real username:
I'm having no luck at all! Cannot validate my twitter card.
Can get a preview - this is the meta stuff..:
But when I try and validate it I just get the invalid card type. Have tried with backslash at the end and without.
Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
website: www.rchittenden.co.uk
Hi Rosanna, our validator will fail if you use tags with empty values. If they are not going to be used, leave them out altogether.
And an image URL is required for the summary with large image card, so you will need to fill in your twitter:image:src tag for the card to render. Do not forget to keep in mind that this image should be at least 280px in width, at least 150px in height, and less than 1MB in size.
So I believe everything should work fine once your code looks something like this:
Hi Ryan/Jon,
I am receiving an "invalid car type" error, while i try to validate player card for a video page on my site.
In the preview, i see that it is displayed correctly.
What could be the problem?
Page:
https://rumble.com/v2z8b9-unbelievable-baby-swims-across-pool.html
Player URL: https://rumble.com/embed/8.2z8b9/
Thanks!
Hi Dimitar, I cannot see any cards metadata markup (meta name="twitter:...") tags in your page source, so the page doesn't validate for me. Did you think you'd added the tags?
I have a similar problem where I get the "Invalid card type." error.
I'm using Google Tag Manager to push the meta tags into my product pages.
For example on this page, http://www.framesdirect.com/framesfp/Ray-Ban_RX-tdsjod/r.html, developer tools or firebug show the correct meta data added. If this is a problem with the tag manager implementation, is there a way to do this via GTM?
Here is the resulting meta data via firebug:
Thank you for the assistance.
Hi @FramesDirect,
When I view source of your page, I don't see any meta tags, or twitter:card. Perhaps I'm missing something?
Thanks, Ryan. Not sure why my post isn't showing up currently.
I think I figured it out. I'm using Google Tag Manager to push those into my product pages but found somewhere that Twitter only reads the page HTML versus anything inserted via JS. So, I'll have to push this during a code update.
Thanks for checking.