Facebook/Twitter Thumbnail Needs Refreshing

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  nitamcgrew · Member · Dec 29, 2016 at 10:06 pm

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  I updated my post with a different featured image which should be the image chosen for sharing on social media however when I do share the link, it’s still reflecting the first/original image on the post. I’ve waited a few hours hoping that the WordPress cache would clear as I’m guessing that’s the reason but as I said, it’s been a few hours now. Is that typical? How long can I expect to wait before the new image is reflected on the link? Thank you.

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  justjennifer · Member · Dec 30, 2016 at 7:33 am

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  Hi there, the issue is actually on twitter’s and facebook’s end as they cache the image. You’ll want to read these earlier forum posts from Staff about running your site through both debuggers:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/caching-issue#post-2717271

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/caching-issue#post-2717553

  Also https://en.support.wordpress.com/facebook-image-thumbnail/

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  nitamcgrew · Member · Dec 30, 2016 at 7:46 am

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  Oh wonderful reply, thank you so much.