Open Graph action works but appears not in the FB timeline

Adriano,

The action appears to have been logged by Facebook correctly. As with any news feed post, Facebook determines its relevance to the viewer and how it should be displayed. There are many ways that an action can be displayed, including the timeline, friend ticker and friends' feeds. As long as the action is showing up in the latest activity, your action seems to be configured correctly. How it is viewed is not something we can control.

Thanks
-Melissa

There's different levels of 'importance' in Facebook's mind. For things that happen automatically, like uploading an image, it's less important because Facebook doesn't know the context. For Actions which are triggered by the user clicking a button and adding a comment, that has much more weight because it's tells Facebook that the content is meant to be shared. Similarly, when a friend is tagged, that's a good indicator to Facebook that the action is meant to be shared.

Uploading is important. The "Read an article" has next to no weight. While it *can* show up in the timeline, it's very rare and more likely will show in the news 'ticker' of what your friends are doing only.

I hope that helps,
Alex

There can be various reasons for where and how an action are displayed, as noted above. If the object type is something that Facebook could recognize algorithmically by it's name, if it's an object that another user has interacted with before (whether through an action or clicking the Like button) and multiple other things will affect where it goes.

Additionally, Facebook also needs to scan the contents of the pages of your site to grab the proper Open Graph tags. When a page is brand new, you can have an action against it, but the information won't fully be in Facebook's system for a while. In that case, it will get much lower prominence until Facebook has fully vetted it out with it's automated tools.

For both cases above, I'd assume that if you go to your Facebook home page and click the "View Activity Log" button in the bottom right of your cover photo, both action types will be shown there. Again though, what shows in the Timeline is dependent on a ton of different factors of which we have no control.

I hope that helps,
Alex