How to Force JFBConnect to Grab K2 Item Title

First, I am not sure what it means to submit the site to twitter for approval. Is that the same as running a page through their Card Validator? Our Twitter App has been approved since December 18, 2014.

Also I would assume that I have to validate for every page that I want to have Tweeted. Is that correct?

I am getting the following error when running the Twitter Card Validator:

9/11 Truth Outreach @911TruthOut
The card for your website will look a little something like this!

Unable to render Card preview

Log

ERROR: FetchError:exceeded 4.seconds to Portal.Pink-constructor-safecore while waiting for a response for the request, including retries (if applicable) (Card error)

When I look up this error, it indicates that the robots.txt file doesn't allow twitterbot access to the site.

When I explicitly allow twitterbot access to the entire site:

User-agent: Twitterbot
Disallow:

I still get the same error message when running the Twitter Card Validator.

I am obviously missing something here: Should I ask twitter to determine the problem?
I noticed the HTML for the page I was validating that the twitter:site meta tag isn't present. Is this the one instance where the twitter meta tag has to be present? i.e. <meta name="twitter:site" content="@911TruthOut" />

Also Twitter does use the Open Graph og: tags in the event that there aren't the equivalent twitter:card tags.

Twitter Cards and Open Graph

You’ll notice that Twitter card tags look similar to Open Graph tags, and that’s because they are based on the same conventions as the Open Graph protocol. If you’re already using Open Graph protocol to describe data on your page, it’s easy to generate a Twitter card without duplicating your tags and data. When the Twitter card processor looks for tags on your page, it first checks for the Twitter property, and if not present, falls back to the supported Open Graph property. This allows for both to be defined on the page independently, and minimizes the amount of duplicate markup required to describe your content and experience.

Example:

And there are several types of Twitter Cards such as:

Summary Card: Default Card, including a title, description,
thumbnail, and Twitter account attribution.

Summary Card with Large Image: Similar to a Summary Card, but
with a prominently featured image.

Photo Card: A Card with a photo only.

Gallery Card: A Card highlighting a collection of four photos.

App Card: A Card to detail a mobile app with direct download.

Player Card: A Card to provide video/audio/media.

Product Card: A Card optimized for product information.

How do I indicate these cards for different types of content pages in JFBConnect?

When you use the validator, if it passes, it should ask you to submit it so that the tags will actually be used in future tweets as the preview. If you don't see that option, all is good, it means you're probably already approved.

I will have to wait and see if the correct image starts appearing in the tweets.

Nope. The validator is like Facebook's Open Graph tool. It's just to test the tags. Once you've submitted for approval, your whole domain will be approved and you'll never have to do that again.

This is really good to know, I was fearing that I would have to validate as part of the articles editing process.

I'm not sure at all what's causing that. Something on the server is preventing them from contacting your site. That's a problem that's likely outside of our ability to help.

I have been perusing the forums, and it seems the validator goes down from time to time, so maybe that is what I am experiencing. I asked Twitter if this was the case and I will let you know what they tell me when they get back to me.

twitter:site is an optional tag. You can add it if you want, but it's not required.

Thanks, since Twitter makes a big deal about this how would I add it other than manually?

Right now, we only support the summary card by default. You may be able to set a custom tag on specific pages for other card types, but I'd have to look into how to do that better.

I can't add another head tag so I will have to think about how to do that on a page by page basis. I see that as a major coding issue for you because you would have to add that as attribute to the plugin tag and an option in the module; adds another level of complexity.

I just posted to our channels and the post to Facebook was successful, but the post to twitter failed.

Each type of Twitter Card (summary, photo, etc) needs to be approved for use on your site, which is more complex for users to go through as well.

I have read twitter developer post where some people have been waiting months for each approval, unless you're Katie Perry or someone like that, then you get expedited.

What happened when you tried to post to Twitter? What message did you get when you tried? Have you gone through the full channel setup and did you re-authenticate with the Twitter user and accept the "Can Post" permission on that login?

No I didn't re-authenticate.

I re-authenticated and was able to post to our twitter account successfully.

Thanks a million Alex.

Well not quite, this is what the post looks like.



I need our post to look as good as the one below it, but I want ours to be grabbed from the information in the K2 item.
I feel like a kindergarten student asking the teacher way too many questions, but I have to get this done right, and the twitter documentation isn't really helpful here as it makes suggestions for the html to include on a page.