Facebook Graph Search not working anymore

by Wf2356
5 replies
Hey,

So I have a friend who has a small business page and I wanted to use the Graph Search to look at who his fans were, possibly to create a profile of the typical fan of his page.

So I looked for pages people who liked his page also liked, I determined what were the most relevant in those pages and then took a look at who liked them the most (they'd be my primary target) and then started looking at what those people have in common as far as their interests/music/movies go (to get a better sense of who they are and also share updates that might interest them).
So really basic stuff, that I did slowly and all by myself (no 3rd party app used, I was just playing around and discovering Graph Search over the weekend).

And then suddenly , Graph Search stopped working. In fact, Facebook Search stopped working. I could only find my friends and pages I already liked, everything else didn't work: searching for people I don't have as friends and trying typical Graph queries like "Fans of"/"Interests of" didn't work. It wasn't even that I was shown a "No results were found" page, it simply didn't work, like those queries and people didn't exist, the suggestions were blank.
After an hour though, I got back full normal search capabilities but still no Graph Search ( it's been ~ 12-13h). Now every time I use the Graph Search I just get a "No results were found", even with something as basic as "Photos I like" or "Photos of me".

Any idea what could be the problem/Anyone ever had that happen?

#anymore #facebook #graph #search #working
  • Profile picture of the author brutecky
    1) You might be surprised to learn this but Facebook sometimes needs to do updates or has issues just like every site in the world.

    2) You might also be surprised to learn that Facebook does NOT report there technical issues or plans to us.

    Got a question about an issue with Facebook? Here is an idea. Bring it to Facebook! Brilliant!
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    • Profile picture of the author Wf2356
      Thank you for your reply but I feel like that's a bit harsh.

      I googled that issue countless times and the few results I found were questions asked to facebook by people with the same problem and there was never an answer (actually there was almost never a reply either).
      I also asked a few of my friends to test Graph Search on their accounts and it works flawlessly. And I reported the problem to Facebook too but no answer yet.
      That's why I was looking for other leads or possibly people that had the same issue and (hopefully) fixed it.

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  • Profile picture of the author carcin0genic
    Do you abuse it?

    Maybe it works like FB jail with adding, messaging, and liking... If you overdo those in a short time period repeatedly FB will lock your account (FB Jail)

    If you continually use Graph Search it might be FB's way of saying slow down...

    Give it a day or 4 and see where you're at

    hope that helps

    -mike
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  • Profile picture of the author darkc0de1
    It works fine on my end.



    Guys if you have any errors about the graph search, can you share?

    Thanks.
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