Old Image Appearing As Featured Image When Sharing

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  arnabchanda · Member · Nov 15, 2015 at 8:38 pm

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  Hi,

  Whenever I post a link to the blog I’ve written below on social media, the old image appears as the featured image, even though I’ve deleted the old photo and replaced it. Not really sure what I’m doing wrong. Could you help? The blog I’m referring to is below:

  Why Aziz Ansari Has Destroyed My Chances, And Why He Is So So Important:

  Thanks for your help.

  Best,
  Arnab

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  timethief · Member · Nov 20, 2015 at 11:20 pm

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  We have no control over the images that Twitter, Facebook or any other social networks chooses to display or when they choose to flush their image caches. We really only send them the URL of the post, and they hunt through that for the excerpt and images to include.

  See http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#images-in-publicize

  Re: Facebook
  Sometimes these help and sometimes they don’t
  http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

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