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Social media is the social interaction among people in which they create, share or exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks.

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How to clear Facebook Sharer cache?

We used the link: http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=[shared URL] ...to share a particular page. However, Facebook Sharer uses the cached version of the images and the title. Is there a way to quickly clear the Facebook cache or how long do we…
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Default website image for social sharing

Is there any way to set a default image that appears when I share my website on Facebook? I've noticed that Facebook usually fetches the first image from the site to use as a thumbnail.
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Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn share link count

Is there any way to get the number of users to share a link on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn? Example: How many times some link was shared to Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to calculate the popularity of some content? How to get share count my…
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Sharing on social media, the URL does not render any meta data

We have built a project (Web Application) in React .net core using react in client-side rendering. We've used react-helmet for dynamically assigning meta tags. The issue being when the app renders in the browser. The browser gets only the static…
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About "SLComposeViewController" in iOS 11 beta

In my project, I always use SLComposeViewController to share contents with third-party apps, but now, when I update my iPhone to iOS 11 beta, this no longer works. The SLComposeViewControllerCompletionHandler always callback…
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Twitter search query both by @user and #hashtag

I'd like to embed twitter widget which will contain search results with both hashtag and user account. '#hashtag OR @username' doesn't work
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Facebook link thumbnail

When posting a link to a website in Facebook (Google+ and the rest count too) you're given a thumbnail, or selection of thumbnails to choose from. These are tags from the HTML. I've always been of the opinion that it was good practice to make my…
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Facebook share not showing image from open graph metatags

I'm trying to integrate the Facebook share button to my employer's site, the title, url, description/intro are all displaying correctly, however no image is being attached. When the share dialog opens, an image container flickers and then disappears…
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Social Media Sharing Buttons Gem for Ruby on Rails

I am trying to find a good gem that will allow me to add social media sharing buttons to my Rails 3 app (similar to the Wordpress plugins AddThis). The key sites that I want to enable sharing with are Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. I want…
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Customize preview image for github pages

is it possible to customize the image that you see as a preview when posting the link to your github pages? I feel like they specifically address the issue for github repositories here, but I dont know how to do this for github pages. Specifically,…
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Website link that opens Instagram Direct Message with the specified href as the body text?

Basically I'm looking for Instagram's equivalent of: whatsapp://send?text=myspecifiedurlgoeshere.com I can't find anything online about this. I had no problem doing this with facebook, facebook messenger, twitter, whatsapp, and email
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Using multiple web pages in a web scraper

I've been working on some Python code to be able to get links to social media accounts from government websites, for a research into ease with which municipalities can be contacted. I've managed to adapt some code to work in 2.7, which prints all…
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How to get facebook likes, shares, and comment count for a post url without using fql?

I need facebook like, share and comment count by passing the post url ("www.example.com/exampleblog") without using fql(as fql is not supported in v2.1). i dont want the below one https://graph.facebook.com/fql?q=SELECT url, share_count,…
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Twitter "View Summary" button

I noticed on Hollywood Reporter that within their tweets they have a "view summary" button, which when clicked on, gives you a preview of a post on their site with a title, excerpt, and preview picture. Any clue as to where some documentation is on…
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What's the most efficient way to add social media "like" and "+1" buttons to your site?

The task sounds trivial but bear with me. These are the buttons I'm working with: Google (+1) Facebook (Like) Twitter (Tweet) LinkedIn (Share) With a little testing on webpagetest.org I found that it's incredibly inefficient if you grab the…
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