Allowing Interactive Post of an Online Game within a Social Network

A method for sharing game play over a social network, comprising:

• detecting a posting of an instance of a game in a stream of the social network, the instance of the game providing a current state of a play session for a portion of the game at a time when a request to share the game on the social network is received from a user;
• in response to receiving a request to play the instance of the game in the stream from a user, presenting an expanded interactive component of the game and one or more controls to play the game from within the stream of the social network;
• and
• generating a reward in response to game play to a user account of a user that plays the instance of the game and to the user account of the user that shared the instance of the game in the stream of the social network,
• wherein operations of the method are executed by a processor.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium embedding program instructions for sharing game play over a social network, the computer-readable storage medium comprising:

• program instructions for executing a play session of a game, during execution of the play session providing an option to share a portion of the game on a social network;
• program instructions for receiving a request to share the portion of the game, the program instructions for receiving is further configured to, in response to receiving the request, generating an instance of the game at a time when the request is received, the instance of the game inheriting a current state of the play session, the request to share further acting to post the instance of the game to a stream of the social network;
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• program instructions for generating a reward to a user account that plays the instance in the stream and a reward to a user account that initiated the request to share the portion of the game upon the user playing the instance of the game claiming the reward.