Posted on March 1, 2015 by One Community
Internet research led us to believe that the best size to display a true and accurate thumbnail for Facebook news feed posts (url posts) was 1200 pixels by 627 pixels. Our borders kept being cut off so we knew this was close but not exact, as you can see in the test images below.
Note: The smear on this image was so we could tell when FB actually updated the image when we were using the debug tool to test each successive change in size.
Note: The smear on this image was so we could tell when FB actually updated the image when we were using the debug tool to test each successive change in size.
For those that don’t know, using Facebook’s debugger tool is how to put your posts in and test how they will look. Here is the link for that tool: http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
We often have to “Debug” and then repeatedly debug again hitting “Fetch New Scrape Information” to get new images to take. We’ve also found that sometime larger images will get the preference over our coded social media image if the social media image is too small. This is why we use 1197 instead of a smaller multiple of this.
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Facebook image sizing, social media help, facebook image tutorial, Facebook 1200 px wrong
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