Support suggestions not working for Facebook image

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  davidboydcox · Member · Dec 7, 2015 at 9:49 pm

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  I just started my blog and noticed no images are being shared on Facebook. I searched your support files and found that I needed to define a blavatar, which I did. I then used the Facebook debug page and told it to get new data. It says the following about the og:image tag;

  og:image was not defined, could not be downloaded or was not big enough. Please define a chosen image using the og:image metatag, and use an image that’s at least 200x200px and is accessible from Facebook. Image ‘https://s0.wp.com/i/blank.jpg’ will be used instead. Consult http://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler for more troubleshooting tips.

  My image is 500×500 pixels. I am not sure what would make it inaccessible to Facebook. Any help will be appreciated!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Dec 7, 2015 at 9:51 pm

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  Know that 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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  davidboydcox · Member · Dec 7, 2015 at 10:00 pm

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  So, in other words, no one knows what causes it, therefore it cannot be fixed?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 7, 2015 at 10:03 pm

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  Sorry but it’s a long standing issue as you can see by clicking the tags in the sidebar.
  
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