How long does the Open Graph actions take to get approved from 'pending'?

Question

My Facebook app has had an action pending for some time now. Does anyone know how long it typically takes to get approved for an Open Graph action? Just curious.

Answer 1

My most recent app uses three Open Graph actions, and the approval process for me went like this:

Actions submitted for approval: Day 1, about 1 AM IST (or 12:30 PM in the Bay Area)

One action approved, two sent back to me with suggestions for grammatical improvements: Day 1, about 7 or 8 AM IST or 7:30 PM in the Bay Area (I'm not 100% certain of time since I was asleep, but gives general idea)

Two actions resubmitted with suggestions incorporated: Day 1, about 3 or 4 PM IST or 2:30 AM in the Bay Area

One action approved, one sent back to me because of lack of steps to test the app: Day 2, about 5 or 6 AM IST or 4:30 PM in the Bay Area (the rejection was funny because both the actions had nearly the exact same steps on how to test, with each just requiring a different button press)

One action resubmitted with very minute details on how to test the system: Day 2, about 2 PM IST or 1:30 AM in the Bay Area)

One action approved, mission accomplished: Day 3, about 4 AM IST or 3:30 PM in the Bay Area

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So, few takeaways from my experience:
1. It currently takes about one working day, with the working hours being probably that in San Francisco or some other American timezone.
2. To be on the safe side, pay a lot of attention on your grammar. If possible, get the opinion of someone you know who's got excellent English skills to help you out. They might still suggest something minutely different, but if you want to save a day, getting an expert in may be worth it.
3. I know the "steps to test it" seem extremely obvious to you, but do yourself a favor and imagine your grandmother (if she isn't much tech-inclined) or any other ultra-noob in your family is going to be the person testing the system. Go into excruciating details if you have to, but make sure you don't leave anything out.
4. This is pretty obvious, and I'm sure 99.99% of you would do this anyway, but make sure to test the publishing of the actions over and over again. You don't want a bug coming in when they are testing, because that is going to cost you some time.
5. Don't be nervous about it. From the look of it, they are approving any action, as long as it adds value and doesn't do things any good app shouldn't, i.e., publish actions that user never performed, doesn't look to spam the user's timeline, doesn't have any questionable content (eg: porn).

Answer 2

Actions are currently being approved (the process began whenever Timeline was officially launched) and the rate of approval has been stepped up quite a bit, however I cannot give an exact timescale as I don't know where certain submissions sit in the queue.

Answer 3

For one of my most recent applications the actions were approved in 4 days