Why is an old image or old text showing up when I share my event on LinkedIn?

All of the social media platforms such as Meta (Facebook), X (Twitter), and LinkedIn "cache" the initial images or text associated with a website. Cache is a technical term that basically means a temporary save. Caching speeds up load times and has many benefits for web users but it can mean that a social media platform is 'remembering' old information that it stored from a previous share.

To update the image LinkedIn is pulling from your Swell site, go to  LinkedIn's Post Inspector Tool, paste in your site's URL and click inspect.

X (formerly Twitter) and Meta (formerly Facebook have similar processes.

Why is an old image or old text showing up when I share my event on X (formerly Twitter)?

Why is there no image when I try to share my site to Facebook?