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What is the minimum width and height Of Facebook Open Graph Images?

Asked 2012-04-17T22:46:37.633
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I had read that images associated with a given URL in the Facebook open graph had to be greater than 50 x 50

However, when we ran the Facebook Object debugger - we got the following warning:

"Tiny og:image: All the images referenced by og:image must be at least 200px in both dimensions. Please check all the images with tag og:image in the given url and ensure that it meets the minimum specification."

Our URL is http://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/charlie-chaplin.html and the image does show up under Object Properties

Do we need to convert our images to be greater then 200 x 200? Or can we leave it as is? It is currently a 65 x 75 image.

thanks for your help!

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Looks to be a bug in the specification. A work-around solution is to make your images 200px but clip what you do not want to see, or shrink them if you have large enough originals. For example, if your image is 25x25 pixels you can add 175px to both dimensions and then nest that image inside of a div that has an overflow:hidden css property and width/height of 25x25. Not the cleanest, but it would work.

I've opened a bug ticket with Facebook to address the question of poor documentation and uncover if this is an actual spec or bug. http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/210269722417284

answered 2012-04-18T18:01:49.803

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