Twitter's Website Verification No Longer Works

fatemehfakhraie · Member · Feb 17, 2015 at 10:21 pm
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Twitter ads & analytics has removed the “websites” tab from their dropdown, as outlined in thisthis earlier forum topic.

How does Twitter’s website verification (found under the Available Tools tab) work now?

The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
timethief · Member · Feb 17, 2015 at 10:24 pm
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Sorry but we don’t provide Twitter support here. Please contact their support Staff directly https://support.twitter.com/
fatemehfakhraie · Member · Feb 17, 2015 at 10:29 pm
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What I’m asking is, if Twitter no longer provides the code for a meta tag, is there a different way to verify Twitter for my blog using the Website Verification service?

I’ll go to Twitter Support; I just want to make sure I’m asking them for the right things.
timethief · Member · Feb 17, 2015 at 10:33 pm
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We have never ever had instructions for verifying Twitter accounts here at WordPress.COM like we do these ones http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/

Also note that we do not have metadata access to WordPress.COM blogs and we cannot insert anything at all into the <header>.
fatemehfakhraie · Member · Feb 17, 2015 at 10:39 pm
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I don’t understand. I’m using WordPress.com. I found the instructions above helpful and followed them for Google & Pinterest. Why include Twitter verification if you’re not going to include instructions on it, like those provided for the other verification services?
timethief · Member · Feb 17, 2015 at 10:42 pm
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I’m sorry I was unable to help you resolve this. I tagged this thread for Staff assistance. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.
fatemehfakhraie · Member · Feb 17, 2015 at 10:44 pm
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Thanks for trying! I appreciate it.
timethief · Member · Feb 17, 2015 at 10:52 pm
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You can read Twitter’s FAQs about verified accounts page while waiting.
https://support.twitter.com/articles/119135-faqs-about-verified-accounts
fatemehfakhraie · Member · Feb 17, 2015 at 10:57 pm
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Just to clarify, I’m not looking to get a blue Twitter check mark. My question is about website verification for Twitter in the Tools > Available Tools tab, along with Google, Pinterest, Yandex, etc., for WordPress.com blogs.

I have a space for Twitter verification there, but there are no corresponding instructions for how to fill it (like there are provided for Google, Pinterest, Yandex, etc.). I just want to know how to find the meta key “content” value to put into the Twitter verification field.
timethief · Member · Feb 17, 2015 at 11:04 pm
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What is your twitter ID? Below is an example. replace the ID number with your own Twitter ID number.

http://fatemehfakhraie.com/wp-admin/tools.php

Twitter Website
Example: <meta property='twitter:account_id' content='9123456'>
fatemehfakhraie · Member · Feb 17, 2015 at 11:08 pm
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Ah, okay. Thank you! I kept looking for content meta keys and all sorts of jargony things…

I went to http://mytwitterid.com/ to find it. Popped that 8-digit number in my Admin Tools, and I guess we’re all good.

Thank you so much, timethief!
timethief · Member · Feb 17, 2015 at 11:14 pm
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You’re welcome. :)

I’m leaving the tagging for Staff up on this thread so they add some clarity to the webmasters tools support page with regard to Twitter Verification as nothing is appearing there now.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
gracejiyoung · Member · Feb 18, 2015 at 4:34 am
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Hi there,

We are currently looking into this and we will get back to you shortly!

Thank you!
justjennifer · Member · Feb 28, 2015 at 8:24 pm
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@gracejiyoung – Any news here?
lizthefair · Member · Mar 1, 2015 at 5:25 pm
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Hi Justjennifer,

Nothing yet. We’ll check again and see where things are.

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