I'm sharing posts on facebook and it's not using my updated OG and meta tags. How long does it take for the changes to make affect.
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Why am I getting a negative vote for this? It's a pretty good question. – somejkuser Oct 31 '14 at 22:37
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your question is not really as detailed as it should be on stackoverflow, i guess that is why. you should include as much information as possible: a testlink with og tags, what you found out on your own, ... – andyrandy Oct 31 '14 at 22:39
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FYI, first part of the `title` tooltip on the downvote icon is _“This question does not show any research effort”_ … as if you were the first person ever to have this kind of question … – CBroe Nov 02 '14 at 16:00
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You can refresh the OG tags in the Facebook debugger: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
You can also take a look at this thread with the same question: Share Cache Timeout
Answer from the Like Button docs:
Why and when does Facebook scrape my page?
Facebook needs to scrape your page to know how to display it around the site. This happens every 24 hours to ensure the properties are up to date. The page is also scraped when the URL is entered into the Debugger Tool.
Btw, there is a nice way to update many pages at once in this thread: Facebook Open Graph not clearing cache
