Has Facebook posting stopped working in the last week?

AlanPlantPot · November 22, 2012, 5:10am

I have an app which allows users to invite their friends to the app by posting onto their Facebook wall. It worked last Friday (16/11/2012), and now suddenly it has stopped working.

Here is my request code:

callFacebook = function(event)  
 if ( "session" == event.type ) then  
 if fbCommand == SEND\_INVITE then  
  
 local attachment = {  
 name = "My App Test",  
 link = "http://www.mywebsite.com",  
 message = "My message string here",  
 picture = "http://mywebsite.com/picture.png",  
 actions = json.encode( { name="More", link="http://www.mywebsite.com"} )  
 }  
  
 print("inviting friend id: "..inviteID)   
 facebook.request( inviteID.."/feed", "GET", attachment )  
  
 end  
  
 elseif ( "request" == event.type ) then  
 if fbCommand == SEND\_INVITE then  
 native.showAlert("Success", "Invite sent!", {"OK"});  
 print("invite posted to Facebook")  
 end  
 end  
end

I am printing out the ID number of the friend (inviteID) that is being invited, and that is working fine. The “request” event also triggers the native.showAlert and print functions, so if I didn’t look at the friends Facebook wall I would be under the impression that it had worked.
I have also tried using “me/feed” to post to my own wall, but that didn’t work either.

As I say, this worked a few days ago and has suddenly stopped working, seemingly for no reason. I have made no change to the Facebook code since then. I have tested it out on iOS and Android, and neither version actually post to the wall any more. I have also not updated my Corona build since last Friday, so the error cannot be due to a difference in builds.

Can someone else please verify if posting to walls is or isn’t working for them at the moment? [import]uid: 84115 topic_id: 33234 reply_id: 333234[/import]

Omnigeek_Media · November 22, 2012, 7:57am

Something may be going on with facebook. I tried to hand post some links to my timeline last night and today and it’s complaining that I can’t based on my privacy settings for that app (which are just URLs). Then I would wait a bit, paste the exact same text/link and it would submit.

Sorry it’s not much of a real answer, but I’ve seen problems posting links from the regular website (not from an app) and that may be related.
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george18 · November 22, 2012, 12:18pm

Facebook announced they’re removing the ability to post on friends’ through an API call a while ago.

http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2012/10/10/growing-quality-apps-with-open-graph/

“Post to friends wall via the API generate a high levels of negative user feedback, including “Hides” and “Mark as Spam” and so we are removing it from the API. If you want to allow people to post to their friend’s timeline from your app, you can invoke the feed dialog. Stories that include friends via user mentions tagging or action tagging will show up on the friend’s timeline (assuming the friend approves the tag)."

Edit:
It’s possible this feature is not yet completely removed and you can still make it work for the next few weeks. Usually they give 90 days warning and this was about 45 days ago. Check your app’s migration settings to see if they may allow you to re-enable this feature until it gets fully removed in the next month or so. [import]uid: 135827 topic_id: 33234 reply_id: 132107[/import]

Omnigeek_Media · November 22, 2012, 7:57am