this seems like a fairly simple question, but I just can't figure it out. I recently developed a facebook game. Now when somebody is playing that game the the message everybody loves is appearing in his stream:
Some guy is playing the most awesome game ever.
And after that, the is a description, which is the root of my problem. I'd like to change this description, which at the moment is showing ...
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
Does anybody know where I can change this text? It would also be helpful if somebody could tell me what the term for that text is, so I could do the research on my own.
//Edit: Ok, the term for the particular FB post is social discovery or usage stories, which unfortunately didn't help me find out how I can change the description of that post. That would be the remaining question.
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This is my first post, I'm glad to join the community. I have very limited, practically no experience with coding, however I am working on something that requires me to jump into coding, so here I am.
My objective is to use the Facebook Advertising tracking pixel to track Soundcloud plays on my page and ultimately target people who have been listening to my tracks on Soundcloud.
Facebook usually allows you to track conversions from your own website, however it says that If you do not own the website where you are trying to track some information from, you should contact the website and ask them.
I have tried contacting Soundcloud but obviously received no response.
I was wondering wether there was a way to get around the issue that I do not own the website and therefore cannot copy and paste the Facebook pixel into Soundcloud's HTML.
I have done some research online, looking into forums, but there seems to be no discussion about this online, at least nothing that I could understand with my limited knowledge.
Here are a few links i checked out before posting here, unfortunately with little success.
http://www.unified.com/developers/earned-measurement/guides/conversion-soundcloud-plays/
http://www.unified.com/developers/earned-measurement/apis/conversions-js/
Thank you for your time,
Any help is appreciated.
Kindest regards,
Oliviero
I hope this has not been asked before, couldnt find out.
We're developing a mobile game and we're starting to think about stories generated with open graph but we're having a doubt about our goal and whether it's going to work or not.
Our question is the following:
can we publish stories on users' wall/timeline that would be visible by friends in their feed, from an app that's only mobile and does not exist on http://facebook.com ?
We understand that this is possible when the app is on both FB and mobile, but we're not sure about mobile only.
Did you ever get an answer to this. According to my research so far adding a canvas app will allow the posts to show. Removing it and they will not show.
Hoping you may have found a work around.
Jason
I am developing a flash game and I want to integrate it with Facebook. It should be very simple integration. My app only need username and e-mail address. I searched the web not I still don't know how to do it. It seems to me very complicated.
All I want is to connect my app to Facebook through Actionscript SDK, with few simple functions.
Can someone help me with a code to do that...I'll be very thankful guys :-)
Well, it's a general question, but here are a few links that might help steer you in the right direction. The first link has the SWC library and some examples:
Facebook ActionScript API resources:
libraries and examples
API documentation (though fairly sparse)
Adobe page
On their page, Adobe links to a tutorial / walkthrough for building a mobile Facebook app that's pretty helpful, though it expands on a desktop-based article and references it regularly, so that can be a bit confusing, but it does get the job done.
Then you need to understand the Facebook Graph API - basically Facebook passes around objects that contain data pertaining to the user, their friends, etc (and of course, passing around this data is subject to the permissions your app has setup). Facebook provides an online tool (Facebook Graph API Explorer) that let's you explore these objects for your own account.
Pouring over this information, I got my first flash-based mobile app talking to Facebook in a few hours. There you go, ask a generic question, get a big swath of links to read that are only semi-related to your question. =D
first time Facebook developer so was hoping for some guidance. Been given a very brief spec:
Requirement is to run it where fans have to give email (so that we can
contact winners) with opt in for newsletter sign up and also must FB
like VF to be entered into prize draw. There will be options to choose
from. They choose one and can't vote more than once.
So I'm thinking about a Facebook application that sits as a tab on the facebook page. If the user hasn't "Liked" the page, they'll be encouraged to "Like" the page in order to proceed.
If it's liked, they'll have an option to opt into our newsletter. They will also be allowed to answer one question with one answer. When they submit it, they will then be entered into a competition.
If they pick the "right" option, we will send them an email telling them so.
Right - does this sound fairly straightforward? Are there any guides, examples or tutorials that could help? Am I going about it in the right way?
Many thanks in advance,
JJ
That sounds very straightforward and you are going about it in the right way.
The best tutorials and examples can probably be found in the Facebook Developers documentation and in the example files within the PHP SDK (http://github.com/facebook/php-sdk/)
To find out if the current viewing user has liked the page or not check out the signed request that Facebook passes to your app tab. It contains this and a lot more useful information http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/signed_request/
What you have is pretty much how the majority of companies are pushing forward with Facebook. They are driving up the Like count by forcing users to Like the page before getting to their goodies. There are lots of examples on the internet as to how to create a page which checks if the user likes the page. As you've not stated what programming language you are going to be tackling this in, it is going to be hard to point you in the right direction.
Hey,
sorry to bother you again, but I can't get this to work and would appreciate a working example project.. I try to give my users the possibility to post a short, predefined message from inside my App on either twitter or facebook (both should be available, but it doesn't have to update both on the same action, so one button to "share on facebook", one button to "tweet about it", so if you have a solution for facebook, but not for twitter or vice versa, I'd happily take the solution you have, either facebook or twitter and go on searching for the other one). It's my first time trying to interact with facebook and twitter, so I need something like dummy-proof explanation.
I found MGTwitterEngine but it seems to be hell to get it working. I've found Ben Gottlieb's Twitter OAuth-iPhone bundle, inserted my data, "registered" my app, and stuck with a gray screen on my device.
I'd need a working example of an iPhone App Project, that manages to tweet or update the facebook status of a user (maybe after a short and painless(!) login). Than I'd happily fiddle around myself to get this working, but by now I only find links to Desktop-Applications, examples or demos that won't work out of the box, or expect you to have done this several times before -.-
Thanks for your help, and sorry if that is an easy question, but I can't find the answer I need..
Perhaps the easiest way to be able to publish to a number of different services is ShareKit. This supports sending messages to Twitter, Facebook and a bunch of other services.