Facebook ignores og:image when sharing url?

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Mati Skiba picture Mati Skiba · Feb 1, 2013 · Viewed 10.4k times · Source

I created a website - http://mati.ravpage.co.il/check4 The website contains one og:image tag and is linted properly.

However, when I want to share this link (by placing it inside a newly created status): it shows two possible thumbnail, the default being different then the one declared in og:image. You can see this in the following screenshot: screen shot

  • The picture shown as default thumbnail is one contained within the page.

I'm using Chrome and am pretty sure it was different a few weeks ago - back then only the og:image thumbnail was shown.

Am I doing something wrong here, are the og:... tags improper or is it a new Facebook behavior?

Thanks in advance, Mati Skiba

Answer

bioneuralnet picture bioneuralnet · Aug 20, 2013

This page will tell you what's wrong, if anything: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug. For me, the image was too small (200 x 200 min).

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