Question

I have the Like button with faces on my site and it gathered 7 likes, of which some were my friends (faces shown) and some were not (faces not shown).

At some point during the past months (can’t track all my pages so I don’t know exactly), something broke so that the button no longer lists any friends. It just shows “Be the first of your friends to like this.” The like count is still 7 but I don’t see who they are.

1) I’m absolutely sure I wasn’t un-friended by all these people.
2) I’m very sure that the iframe, code etc. was not changed. It just stopped working.
3) Running the link through the linter doesn’t help. No errors/warnings are reported by the linter.
4) Increasing iframe height doens’t seem to help
5) The same friends whose pictures dissapeared from some pages still show in others (generated from the same php therefore correct), which seems to prove that this is not a privacy issue, besides, how could there be a privacy issue with so many people?

This totally beats me, any ideas? See some links below.

http://www.great-passage.com/?photoId=59

http://www.great-passage.com/?photoId=98

Answer 1

It shows 7 likes for me

What I think is happening. Your logged off of Facebook or logged in as a different user and viewing the webpage. Try toggling logging on and off and refreshing browser cache and see if it changes.

The best way to verify whats going on here is to look behind the scenes.

Open Graph call for URL’s

https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=http://www.great-passage.com/?photoId=59

{
   "http://www.great-passage.com/?photoId=59": {
      "id": "http://www.great-passage.com/?photoId=59",
      "shares": 7
   }
}

https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=http://www.great-passage.com/?photoId=98

{
   "http://www.great-passage.com/?photoId=98": {
      "id": "http://www.great-passage.com/?photoId=98",
      "shares": 23
   }
}