diff --git a/facebook/facebook.php b/facebook/facebook.php
index 30f728628..51f1fc846 100644
--- a/facebook/facebook.php
+++ b/facebook/facebook.php
@@ -1004,6 +1004,10 @@ function facebook_post_hook(&$a,&$b) {
 					if(preg_match("/\[img\](.*?)\[\/img\]/is",$b['body'],$matches))
 						$image = $matches[1];
 
+				// When saved into the database the content is sent through htmlspecialchars
+				// That means that we have to decode all image-urls
+				$image = htmlspecialchars_decode($image);
+
 				// Checking for a bookmark element
 				$body = $b['body'];
 				if (strpos($body, "[bookmark") !== false) {
@@ -1110,10 +1114,10 @@ function facebook_post_hook(&$a,&$b) {
 						'access_token' => $fb_token,
 						'message' => $msg
 					);
-					if(isset($image)) {
+					if(trim($image) != "") {
 						$postvars['picture'] = $image;
 					}
-					if(isset($link)) {
+					if(trim($link) != "") {
 						$postvars['link'] = $link;
 
 						// The following doesn't work - why?
@@ -1121,7 +1125,7 @@ function facebook_post_hook(&$a,&$b) {
 							$postvars['source'] = $link;
 						}
 					}
-					if(isset($linkname))
+					if(trim($linkname) != "")
 						$postvars['name'] = $linkname;
 				}
 
diff --git a/privacy_image_cache/privacy_image_cache.php b/privacy_image_cache/privacy_image_cache.php
index b5cfb13e6..cd8a65f8b 100644
--- a/privacy_image_cache/privacy_image_cache.php
+++ b/privacy_image_cache/privacy_image_cache.php
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ function privacy_image_cache_img_cb($matches) {
 	if (privacy_image_cache_is_local_image($matches[2]))
 		return $matches[1] . $matches[2] . $matches[3];
 
-	return $matches[1] . get_app()->get_baseurl() . "/privacy_image_cache/?url=" . escape_tags(addslashes(rawurlencode($matches[2]))) . $matches[3];
+	return $matches[1] . get_app()->get_baseurl() . "/privacy_image_cache/?url=" . addslashes(rawurlencode(htmlspecialchars_decode($matches[2]))) . $matches[3];
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/statusnet/statusnet.php b/statusnet/statusnet.php
index b3a8a1a14..b433f57b2 100755
--- a/statusnet/statusnet.php
+++ b/statusnet/statusnet.php
@@ -503,10 +503,14 @@ function statusnet_post_hook(&$a,&$b) {
                         $msg = implode(' ', $e);
 			$msg .= '... ' . $shortlink;
 		}
+
+		$msg = trim($msg);
+
 		// and now dent it :-)
 		if(strlen($msg)) {
                     $result = $dent->post('statuses/update', array('status' => $msg));
-                    logger('statusnet_post send, result: ' . print_r($result, true), LOGGER_DEBUG);
+                    logger('statusnet_post send, result: ' . print_r($result, true).
+                           "\nmessage: ".$msg, LOGGER_DEBUG."\nOriginal post: ".print_r($b));
                     if ($result->error) {
                         logger('Send to StatusNet failed: "' . $result->error . '"');
                     }
diff --git a/twitter/twitter.php b/twitter/twitter.php
index 2849db968..04c1c87df 100755
--- a/twitter/twitter.php
+++ b/twitter/twitter.php
@@ -367,6 +367,9 @@ function twitter_post_hook(&$a,&$b) {
                         $msg = implode(' ', $e);
 			$msg .= '... ' . $shortlink;
 		}
+
+		$msg = trim($msg);
+
 		// and now tweet it :-)
 		if(strlen($msg)) {
 			$result = $tweet->post('statuses/update', array('status' => $msg));