Gigya Update: Changes to the Facebook Open Graph

Chris Kauffman

Gigya commented on changes to Facebooks Open Graph...

 

Gigya Update: Changes to the Facebook Open Graph

 

More information is available from Facebook at 

 

https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2012/10/10/growing-quality-apps-with-open-graph/

 

The changes do not appear to impact Luminate Online developers, except for the following:  

 

Additional distribution from news feed and timeline

Facebook is now prioritizing Open Graph posts with images and locations in news feed and on timeline, as these types of posts result in 70% more clicks.

 

If you want constituents to share pages from your site and have them appear higher on their friends' timelines they should be sure to include an image in the share when configuring it with the Social Sharing component.