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Facebook Broadcasting and Aggregation

alexkingorg edited this page Apr 20, 2012 · 4 revisions

(These are developer notes)

Broadcasting

Design

  • if post format = status, send as status update
  • if no post format or post format != status (or if broadcasting a comment), send as link
  • if featured image, include with link
  • output Open Graph tags to help Facebook grab the right data from page
  • comments should be posted back to existing thread in Facebook, if possible
    • if comment cannot be posted to thread, post to wall comment on link instead
  • visualize the 'broadcast' to mimic what Facebook will do (Message above, featured image and link data below)

Aggregation

Design

  • likes and comments on broadcast status post should be brought in to WP as comments
  • likes and comments on broadcast link should be brought in to WP as comments
  • likes and comments on anything referencing the post by URL should be brought in to WP as comments (Open Graph search)
  • Future item: handle "shares" (similar to Twitter's Retweets)
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