When I post a link to one of my Hubs on Facebook, it usually displays a thumbnail picture, the title of the Hub and some of the summary. However, recently when I've posted links on Facebook (in the past week or so), the only thing that shows up is... the link. No picture, no summary, nothin'. Needless to say it's not very eye catching without the pic and I would imagine that potential readers are just going to skip right over a random blob of link text on their newsfeeds.
Am I the only one experiencing this phenomenon? If not, does it mean that there's some sort of bug goin' on between HP and Facebook?
Just curious. Thanks for any wisdom that you may be able to provide.
We are all having that problem...well, most of us are. Mine are not showing up either and several other people have mentioned it too.
What I have found to work under this type of situation is to use the "short link" to your hub. Copy and paste that into your Facebook status page.
You can find your short link by clicking "stats" at the top of your hub, then clicking "Hub Metrics"..there at the bottom you will see the short URL link.
Hey FatFreddy,
Just curious, how are you putting links on Facebook? If you're simply cutting and pasting the links and then you don't get a Thumbnail, then it's either a browser issue or a Facebook issue and not a HubPages issue.
If you've used the "shared" button to link your Hub to Facebook and you didn't get a thumbnail, then again it is most likely a browser issue than it is a HubPages problem. I post links to Facebook all the time, using both methods and when I run into the problem, I close my browser, clear out cookies and restart my browser. It usually fixes the problem.
I am using Google Chrome presently, but it also happened when I was using FireFox. I haven't used IE in a few years, so I don't know about it.
Same here. I've tried it several ways -- copy/paste and using the "share" button -- and gotten the same result... bupkiss. At least I know it's not just me.
Thanx Dale... will give that a try...
*EDIT* Tried your trick and it seems to be working! Thanks for the tip!!
by DanielCook 14 years ago
With the last two hubs I've published on Facebook, the small picture (thumbnail) is not showing up when I post the story. This is an important part of the post. Has anyone else had this problem in the past - it used to work fine but for some reason has stopped working now. I've...
by Eugene Brennan 3 years ago
Then I have to change them back again. Grrr!If thumbnails were displayed properly, it would be fine. But they're tiny, the selected image is tiny and can't be zoomed and captions can't be viewed while viewing the image. Overall it results in a bad reader experience.
by Karla Iverson 12 years ago
I use Facebook, Digg, Reddit and Redgage to post links to new hubs. I also use Technorati, which is supposed to pick up new hubs automatically. Thumbnails of photos used to post with the link for Facebook and Redgage. I can't get any thumbnail to post in the links. Also, Technorati automatically...
by Melanie Palen 12 years ago
Some hubs don't show a thumbnail (my hubs don't) when posting to facebook, but some do.I don't know if Facebook is unable to recognize a photo on certain hub accounts or what, but I thought I'd let you know.
by StellaSee 13 years ago
Those hubs look great. I believe that feature becomes available when adding multiple images to the same photo capsule, then select "thumbnails" for display method. See here for further reference: http://hubpages.com/search/thumbnail
by GAGANPREET SINGH BHATIA 11 years ago
How to post pictures with links on redgage?I am new to redgage & when I post a link, I don't get any pics with it. Just one option as "No Thumbnail". Whereas others post there links with pics. How ?
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