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How does Facebook Sharer select Images?

Ok, I just launched a site: http://www.haavekuva.fi/ yesterday and on that site I've implemented Facebook's social plugin "fb:like", so it's possible to like a photo.

Everything else works fine ("Like" gets published to my feed with correct title, link, etc.), but for some reason the og:image does not show up? When I hover over the the"Like"-link ("Janne likes Shopping on Haavekuva.") on my profile feed, on the hover-box it shows only Facebook question mark.

If I linter the page at developers.facebook.com/tools/lint/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.haavekuva.fi%2Fkalenteri%2Fpaiva%2F2010-10-10%2Fshopping%2F there the photo is correctly visible.

Does anyone have any idea why so?

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Solution

No image will be represented within the stream when a user "Likes" something, unless they also add a comment (at the point of liking it). Not sure if that was the answer you were looking for, but hopefully it clears things up.

OTHER TIPS

Are your images the right size and ratio?
They have a limit of at least 50x50 pixels in size and at max an aspect ratio of 3:1.

og:image - An image URL which should represent your object within the graph. The image must be at least 50px by 50px and have a maximum aspect ratio of 3:1. We support PNG, JPEG and GIF formats. You may include multiple og:image tags to associate multiple images with your page.

Read more: Facebook open graph tags

It could be something else though...
Until a couple of days ago, everything worked fine on my site http://ahrengot.com/. But now, for some inexplicable reason, the images won't show when pages are shared. I know facebook detects the images, because they show up in The URL Linter. I have not changed anything in the code. This just came as a bug out of the blue.

I think this might be a temporary bug on their part, but it sure is annoying.

Yes, the above was a temporary bug on Facebook's part. My images are included again whenever pages from http://ahrengot.com are shared on Facebook

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