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I have a couple of embedded YouTube videos which I have added Like buttons for. The titles were wrong the first time I tested the Like functionality.
Although the video titles have now been changed, the old titles are still showing up in a user's news feed when they click Like.
Is there a way to get Facebook to get the new titles of the page, or are the titles now cached forever?
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Caching means that Facebook stores that information for later use because it helps their platform remain super fast. So even after you change the title and share your page again, or somebody else shares your page, Facebook will not go to your page again to scrape the information.
While you can follow the above steps multiple times to clear the cache for multiple links, that’s not the most efficient method. For those of us crunched for time, the Batch Invalidator tool is a simple method of clearing the Facebook cache for multiple links at once. You can find this tool to the right of the Sharing Debugger.
The solution to forcing Facebook to refresh the metadata is simple – welcome Facebook Lint Tool. Open the Facebook Lint Tool. Place the url of your page in the input field and click Debug. The tool will report all of the meta information for your page. Click on the button Scrape again.
So even after you change the title and share your page again, or somebody else shares your page, Facebook will not go to your page again to scrape the information. Instead, it will go to their cache and check to see if they have the information already stored there.
You can use Facebook URL Debugger to refresh the data. This tool is ment for debugging open graph tags on webpages. It has nice side effect of updating Facebook cache of the debugged URL. Originally this tool was named Facebook URL Linter.
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