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I wish to configure a system (using something like dlvr.it) so new threads on my forum go automatically to Facebook. I have tried this via Twitter but Facebook chooses a thumbnail that is one of my advertisers' buttons on the forum page. I would like it to be the first image inside the thread instead.

Is it possible to guide Facebook to which image to pick when doing this? If so how would I do that? Thanks in advance.

muotechguy
2012-08-06 11:36:59
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Hi Julie. Facebook tries to use "open graph" meta tags on the page - check out the source code here, and you'll find one called "og:image" in the header. That's what will be used for the image on facebook. On the main site, we use the featured image of the article; here, we use a generic "makeuseof answers" image. In wordpress, this would be easy to setup, but i'll afraid a forum is a little more difficult. You'd need some kind of a plugin for your specific setup. These will need to adjust the original source of the page rather than simply sending another parameter to facebook.
Saikat Basu
2012-08-05 05:56:09
Try the advice given here - http://www.capstrat.com/insights/blog/facebook-share-thumbnail-image/Maybe, it will help.
Rishabh Sharma
2012-08-05 04:02:18
Hover over the thumbnail while posting and you can find a button to edit it
Julie-Ann Hind
2012-08-05 04:05:44
Hi Rishabh - do you mean to hover over the thumbnail in Facebook? If I post manually I get a choice of thumbnails but none of them are from the actual thread on the forum. I also want my posts to Facebook (with the pictures) to be automatic. So that way I need to make Facebook somehow choose thumbnails from inside the thread not others that are on the forum page.Does that make sense? Any ideas?