Facebook shows gibberish in place of link summary/title etc.

Hi, I’ve got a problem when I share post-links on my Facebook fan page.

Everything was working good but all of a sudden, when I paste links from my blogposts in Facebook, the automatically generated title/summary text is all gibberish.

The problem does not happen when I try to paste links from older posts. It only happens for new posts.

What could be causing this issue?

Note: no new plugins activated. code unchanged. no new changes introduced in the settings.

Here you can see: http://www.screencast.com/t/gJ7Aae6TSx

Problem is fixed

Thanks

Ohh.. It works randomly for few posts only… 🙁

It is already enabled. Somehow It has been not working after updating the theme.

It seems working for most of the posts after updating theme. However, it’s still not working for number of posts.

I’ve run across one issue with social media sharing on some posts with 3.9.2 (not yet updated to 4x), which contain a single quote in headline such as book title and which also have YouTube video. When sharing via Twitter and FB sometimes get some funky characters, like the encoding is broken. So, on Twitter we see a [] in place of ‘ …

Might not be the same issue, but check if it’s on posts with non text characters in headline/title, and YouTube video(s) auto-embedded in post.

This is the only “random” thing I’ve found with sharing with the standard sharing buttons (the big square CSS3 color buttons with social icons on them). For the moment we switched back to the share buttons with sharing numbers to fix it.

Waiting on 4.3/4.4 to upgrade theme from 3.9.2, but will check this issue once done.

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Lucian,

Thanks a lot… It was really a huge help.

When I tried homepage on “Fetch as Googlebot”, it was also showing partial status. Something was blocked in robots.txt. However, this issue seems fixed now. I can share same post without problem on Facebook now.

Thanks again.