Facebook Open Graph not showing on timeline

Question

I'm using FB Open Graph in my application. It's not fully working. When I post a object it appears in the user's recent activity; however, it doesn't appear on their timeline. The metadata has no errors and I'm using the FBGraph gem but it also doesn't work when I do it using curl. Any advise to fix this?

Answer 1

When you are in development mode, and your actions have not yet been approved by Facebook, the posted actions are only visible to you and to others with developer, admin or tester privileges for your FB app.

See: Facebook action submission

Also, open graph actions will no longer appear in users' news feeds or even the Ticker: http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/398546930211799/. So you shouldn't expect activities performed in your app to appear in users' timelines, unless these activities are tagged as 'explicitly shared', and even then there's no guarantee they'll show up.

Only direct, active shares are more or less guaranteed to show up in the Timeline.

Answer 2

Have you tried to use 'fb:explicitly_shared=true' in your URL. Refer: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/technical-guides/opengraph/explicit-sharing/

Answer 3

Did you submit your action to get approved by facebook? If you did not do this, it will only work on your facebook account.

Also, are you sure you request the correct permission when the user authenticates, such as 'publish_stream'?