Great Tool For Any Newsroom That Posts Stories To Facebook

Courtesy of the people at Poynter:

NEW TOOL, FOUR STEPS: You know that awful thing where you update an article but it still shows old information when you post it to Facebook? Or that thing where Facebook doesn’t seem to recognize an image when it builds a share card? Or do you hate being surprised by what appears when you share an article? That’s all fixable!

1. Make sure your article is properly updated and published.
2. Visit the Facebook debugger, paste your article’s URL and hit “debug.”
3. Verify that the post looks like you’d like.
4. If it doesn’t, make any necessary changes and hit “scrape again.”

A similar tool is available for Twitter. Happy posting!

Posted by Tim Morrissey