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rfacebookr-package
Veeramani Natarajan
Veeramani Natarajan

Reputation: 342

Why Facebook 'post date' is greater than the 'post commented date' in R?

I'm trying to retrieve all the data about the specific post. For some posts, I encountered that the commented date is earlier than the created date. When I check that manually in facebook, I found that the data retrieved through Rfacebook was wrong.

The code used was 

library(Rfacebook)
fb_oauth<-fbOAuth(app_id="app id", app_secret ="app secret",extended_permissions = TRUE)
fb_post<-getPost("post id",fb_oauth,n=100,comments = TRUE,likes = TRUE,n.likes = 100,n.comments=100)

The result I had obtained in RConsole was

Post Commented Date earlier than the Post Date

Can any of you help me on this? How can one comment on the post even before it is created? I couldn't able to identify where the mistake was happening?. Some of the post id's which had these problems are 

153542981344073_1159481850750176,
153542981344073_1147835821914779,
153542981344073_638451442853222,
153542981344073_456937087671326,
153542981344073_429242860440749

Upvotes: 2

Views: 113

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 6251

There's nothing wrong with the data. The comment date can be earlier than the post date.

For the post with id 153542981344073_1159481850750176, it's a "updated their cover photo" post. The sequence of events is as follows:

  • Photo is uploaded on 9 Jan
  • Comment is posted on 11 Jan
  • Cover photo is set to the uploaded photo on 22 Feb

The post's created_time is the third date, not the first.

Upvotes: 2

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