Why does Facebook Share Pull the Wrong Thumbnail?

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Jamey Orr picture Jamey Orr · Jan 10, 2012 · Viewed 11.4k times · Source

I have a quick question, hopefully someone can help me. I recently took a microsite live for a client and everything went smoothly except for a facebook integration piece. When a user attempts to Share the site, the thumbnail pulled for the share reflects the logo from the main site, not the microsite. I am baffled because this logo can be found nowhere on the page. Additionally, I have included the requisite meta information in the header of the document <meta property="og:image" content="http://www.rethinkyourdrinknow.com/images/ryd/logo2.png" /> but for some reason it still pulls the other image. Does anyone have more experience with Facebook share that could possibly lend a hand?

Thanks, Jamey

Answer

Andy Muth picture Andy Muth · Jan 10, 2012

Try using the Facebook Linting tool (now the debugger)

http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

Enter the URL of your microsite, the tool should tell you whats going on.

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