How to Validate Your Twitter Card

You can attach rich photos, videos and media experiences to Tweets with Twitter cards. It helps to drive more traffic to your website from Twitter. There are different types of cards like Summary Card, Summary Card with Large Image, App Card and Player Card. Do you add any Twitter Cards to your website? Do you need to validate the card?

Steps

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    Go to Twitter Card validator website. Visit www.cards-dev.twitter.com/validator in your browser and sign in with your Twitter account, if you are not already done.
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    Paste the URL to your Twitter card metadata. If you added a Twitter card meta tags to your website's page, copy the link to the page (e.g: https://www.wikihow.com/Use-Twitter) and paste into the Card URL box.
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    Hit the Preview card button. Wait to load the preview of your Twitter card.
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    Examine your card. You will see your Twitter card's preview on the right side of the page.
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    Check your card's status. Scroll to Log sections to see more details about your card. If your card has any problem, you will see the WARN message on there. Done!
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References

  1. https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/optimize-with-cards/overview/abouts-cards

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