Can't add twitter cards to blog?

plate_coverage · ‎08-14-2016

Hi. I've been unable to get Twitter to validate the summary card on my blog posts. I keep getting this error message:

INFO: Page fetched successfully

INFO: 15 metatags were found

INFO: twitter:card = summary tag found

ERROR: Required meta tag missing (twitter:text:description)

However, there is nothing wrong with the code (this was copied from twitter''s own dev tutorials):

Does anybody have any ideas? It's maddening not to be able to tweet images, headlines, etc.

Thanks so much for your help!

Adam7 · ‎08-14-2016

Where are you adding the code to your site, @plate_coverage? It's possible it's not where Twitter expects it to be.

ccharle2 · ‎09-20-2016

Add this code to your SEO Header or Blog Header:

This will at least give you cards---and aced validation---but I would like to know how to specify that each post URL have a new graphic, as my graphics vary daily?

Here is my blog: http://alamedadowningblog.weebly.com/inside-the-dlo

New graphics that reflect each post in my card would be great! Any help would be appreciated!

jkuhn · ‎09-22-2016

I am a weebly user, and I figured out a super easy way to add the twiter cards. Coincidentially, I created a how-to post this week here joyfulsavings.com/blog/how-to-add-twitter-cards-to-weebly-blog-posts.

It works like a charm...you'll love it!☺

TheMystic · ‎09-06-2018

This is the same way I do it - but it is cumbersome to add the code each and every time, I wish there was a way this is done automatically.
I found this instruction (you likely did too): https://follows.com/blog/2017/11/install-twitter-cards-website
However, when I tried to add it to my SEO (on my Weebly site, or else on my blog page settings) when I hit SAVE it just erased it!
So I have to keep doing it on every post page.
I wish Weebly had a simple app, like Joomla does: https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/twitter-summary-card-for-articles/

That such should be possible is proof by the example of posts on Steemit: I write a post and sharing on Twitter is done as a full image card - so they must have a code that does this automatically for all posts by everyone on the platform (over 1 million users). My page on there is https://steemit.com/@thermoplastic