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posted this on Dec-26 2011 20:26
posted this on Dec-26 2011 20:26
We've been getting questions from users who switched to the new Facebook Timeline and now their NetworkedBlogs posts are not visible, or barely visible on their timelines. We're still learning about the timeline as well, but I'll share what we learned so far for everyone's benefit:
1. Post Visibility:
a. On the normal profiles (pre-timeline), everything you post to your wall is visible to you and to your friends who visit your wall (unless you set a privacy setting to hide some posts from some people). On the timeline, though, not all posts that you publish to your wall are visible. Instead, Facebook uses an algorithm to decide which posts to show and which to hide. In other words, just because you posted something on your timeline, it doesn't guarantee that you'll actually see it. It might be there, but not visible.
b. You can influence the visibility of posts by going to your "Activity Log" and you should see all the posts there and there is an option to "show on timeline" or "feature on timeline". With these options, you can override Facebook's algorithm manually to force certain posts to be visible.
c. To complicate things, there is a known Facebook bug that is affecting only some users that causes all app posts (including NetworkedBlogs) to be completely invisible. If you don't see any post from NetworkedBlogs at all, and the posts are not in Activity Log either, then you're probably affected. In which case, wait a few days and Facebook should push a fix for this.
2. Post Grouping
In the new timeline, Facebook might group several posts together in one box. Users who post a lot will notice that more because facebook might group 20 or more posts together in one small box that shows 3 or 4 posts and a link to "show more". So if you don't see posts from NetworkedBlogs, search for a box that might contain a group of all the posts together.
The problem with this grouping is that other posts, such as messages that your friends post on your wall, might be more visible on your wall than your own posts!
3. Post Order
With the new timeline, the posts on your timeline might not be ordered as you'd usually expect (most recent first). Sometimes, more recent posts might show up further down, especially if they're grouped in a box. So scroll several pages down if you don't see your posts at the top.
4. The Open Graph API
This is the new technology that Facebook announced a few months ago that will work much better with the new timeline. However, although the timeline is released for many users, the Open Graph API is not available yet. So in this transitional period, we're in this strange position in which the timeline is available but we can only publish to is using the older technology, so that's another reason things don't work as well as they should. This should be temporary though and should be solved once the new APIs are released.
Solution:
We've been testing a few methods to work around the new design and limitations, and we found a good method that solves all the problems above. The posts are visible on the timeline, and they are not grouped in a box, and they're ordered correctly. We're testing this right now with a few beta users before we make it publicly available to everyone. If you're interested in joining the beta, see this post for more details.
1. Post Visibility:
a. On the normal profiles (pre-timeline), everything you post to your wall is visible to you and to your friends who visit your wall (unless you set a privacy setting to hide some posts from some people). On the timeline, though, not all posts that you publish to your wall are visible. Instead, Facebook uses an algorithm to decide which posts to show and which to hide. In other words, just because you posted something on your timeline, it doesn't guarantee that you'll actually see it. It might be there, but not visible.
b. You can influence the visibility of posts by going to your "Activity Log" and you should see all the posts there and there is an option to "show on timeline" or "feature on timeline". With these options, you can override Facebook's algorithm manually to force certain posts to be visible.
c. To complicate things, there is a known Facebook bug that is affecting only some users that causes all app posts (including NetworkedBlogs) to be completely invisible. If you don't see any post from NetworkedBlogs at all, and the posts are not in Activity Log either, then you're probably affected. In which case, wait a few days and Facebook should push a fix for this.
2. Post Grouping
In the new timeline, Facebook might group several posts together in one box. Users who post a lot will notice that more because facebook might group 20 or more posts together in one small box that shows 3 or 4 posts and a link to "show more". So if you don't see posts from NetworkedBlogs, search for a box that might contain a group of all the posts together.
The problem with this grouping is that other posts, such as messages that your friends post on your wall, might be more visible on your wall than your own posts!
3. Post Order
With the new timeline, the posts on your timeline might not be ordered as you'd usually expect (most recent first). Sometimes, more recent posts might show up further down, especially if they're grouped in a box. So scroll several pages down if you don't see your posts at the top.
4. The Open Graph API
This is the new technology that Facebook announced a few months ago that will work much better with the new timeline. However, although the timeline is released for many users, the Open Graph API is not available yet. So in this transitional period, we're in this strange position in which the timeline is available but we can only publish to is using the older technology, so that's another reason things don't work as well as they should. This should be temporary though and should be solved once the new APIs are released.
Solution:
We've been testing a few methods to work around the new design and limitations, and we found a good method that solves all the problems above. The posts are visible on the timeline, and they are not grouped in a box, and they're ordered correctly. We're testing this right now with a few beta users before we make it publicly available to everyone. If you're interested in joining the beta, see this post for more details.
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