I have properly configured Open Graph meta tags on my webpage so when someone shared a page on my web everything worked perfectly – Title, Description, Thumbnail…. Until a month ago. Now when I try to share a page, firstly everything appears correctly – title, description, thumbnail, but when I post it, it’s reduced to the domain name. Instead of title and description the sharer puts http://www.mydomain.com and the thumbnail is removed completely. See the screenshot to see what I mean – August 22, everything ok, then it went wrong.
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/2635/wwwsvobodainfo.png
I tried to hack the meta tags, but Facebook Debugger showed no errors and eventually I figured out that the meta tags don’t play any role in this problem. I created simple 5-line html document, just head/title/body, uploaded it, shared it and the result was the same. But then I uploaded this simple document to different domain and suddenly the Facebook Sharer recognized the title and displayed it properly. So it seems to me that it’s related to the whole domain, in other words, Facebook “blocks” my whole web!
And the situation is a little bit more messy. The real owner of this web created long time ago a simple Facebook Page to promote this web. As far as I know, this page is not “connected” to the real web, only the name is the same. Then we wanted to monitor users (liking, sharing…) so we registered the domain into Facebook Insights. And now, when I was trying to get this working, I registered a new Facebook Application with my different Facebook account (my was verified, owner’s wasn’t) in order to get an app_id which I could put to the meta tags. Well it didn’t work, but I’m now worried that something inside Facebook went wrong and that’s why the whole web is ignored.
Last thing – I found some thread about exactly the same problem but it was started almost 2 year ago (http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=46573&p=2) and some official Facebook guy claimed that it was just a bug which was going to be fixed soon. Well obviously it’s here again and lasts almost a month now.
EDIT: Simple Like button seems to be working well, but when I like a page and try to comment it, the problem occurs as described above.
All dot info domains (that i had checked) have this problem.
It’s a Facebook bug!! I have the same problem on my domain, so I hope FB will resolve it soon :/