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Are any of you tasked with running the social media campaigns for the companies you work for? I think it's a long shot, I don't think anyone wants to admit to posting on social media as a job.
However, IF anyone is doing that... I found a really useful tool to solve a very specific problem.
These days, if you post on social media, the thumbnail is everything. If the thumbnail is missing, or it shows up black, people won't click. Just that simple.
I had a problem with tiktok thumbnails not showing up on facebook, and I used this tool to fix it. Don't laugh, this is high technology for me. I'm not a developer or a designer.
https://medium.com/writers-blokk…
From the article, "Why Your Thumbnail Doesn’t Show?
When you first paste your link into Facebook, it goes to the website and pulls the metadata for your link. One piece of meta-data it pulls is the thumbnail photo for that link."And, if you create a social media post and try to cross post it to facebook too soon, the thumbnail is not yet generated = failed thumbnail. BUT THERE IS A FIX
You put the direct link to your social media post in the Facebook sharing debugger tool,
https://developers.facebook.com/…
and VOILA! you can hard force a re-scrape of the metadata and your newly minted thumbnail will populate in the preview. That way you can know how your post will appear BEFORE u look foolish on social media.
For the record, I dislike facebook but this debugger tool probably exists for the other social networks who knows...
Come to think of it why doesn't QBN give such a metadata scrape preview so we don't look stupid when our links don't work...
QBN makes u raw dogg it. no condom, click broadcast and cross your fingers