Feed Dialog posts to wall not showing on the news feed

Question

I am using Feed Dialog http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/feed/ and when a post is made it shows up on the target wall but not on the newsfeed. Also if someone then browsing the wall posts a "Like" or comment it does not show up on any newsfeed nor on the wall of the poster.

Here is an example of the URL to post http://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?app_id=417204058317545&link=http://www.kilcooleac.com&to=kilcooleac&picture=http://www.kilcooleac.com/images/fb3.jpg&name=Kilcoole%20AC&caption=Kilcoole%20ac& description=Fionnuala%20Britton%20running%2010k%20in%20the%20Olympics%20for%20Ireland%209:25pm%20Friday%203rd%20August&redirect_uri=http://www.facebook.com/kilcooleac

I have searched and found two similar posts on SO but without solutions. Google search brings up a bug report that is similar http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/405986669448307

I have posted a bug on Facebook https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/507380435954622

All help/suggestions gratefully received.

Many thanks

Answer 1

Posts won't immediately appear in the user's news feed, it will however appear in the timeline straight away. This is because Facebook have an algorithm that only shows certain content on the news feed. Try changing your Newsfeed settings to Most Recent and you might see the post appear. Most users have the default setting of Most Popular set.