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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 28, 2014 11:56:31 GMT -5
Does Fb recognize and push what's trending? Last night I found this great photo and commentary in my personal feed and posted it to my page: www.babble.com/baby/code-brown-newborn-lets-loose-resulting-in-greatest-family-portrait-ever-photo/Aside: the dog, OMG ... priceless. This morning I discovered that 3 people have liked the post, 1 has commented ... and Fb has shown it to 183 people. Now it's up to 190. WTF? I only have 169 followers, and I *never* break 100 views. I only get close to 100 on posts with a lot of engagement -- multiple comments, multiple replies to comments, lots of likes. Why is Fb putting this one in so many feeds? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2014 12:39:30 GMT -5
I'm sure they do. It'd be an interesting experiment to find out further...
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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 28, 2014 13:31:18 GMT -5
I'm sure they do. It'd be an interesting experiment to find out further... Their algorithms must be crazy complicated. |
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Post by vrabinec on Mar 28, 2014 13:44:39 GMT -5
I viewed it over and over. There's something about poop.
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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 28, 2014 13:53:55 GMT -5
I viewed it over and over. There's something about poop. Honestly, I think it's the dog. It looks so quietly, dignifiedly desperate. |
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Post by vrabinec on Mar 28, 2014 14:17:46 GMT -5
I dunno. If I was captioning the dog, I'd say, "Do you smell that?"
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Post by Suzy on Mar 28, 2014 14:30:44 GMT -5
This happened to me a while back. I posted a photo of my Hot Gossip cover with a text announcing it was free for three days. I pinned the post to the top of the page.
It got 430 views on that post and I only have 370-ish likes. I have no idea why that happened.
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Post by vrabinec on Mar 28, 2014 14:39:21 GMT -5
The most likes I have on anything I've posted is 13. I feel so impotent.  |
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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 28, 2014 15:20:40 GMT -5
I dunno. If I was captioning the dog, I'd say, "Do you smell that?" But he's looking right at the photograph. I think he's saying, "Get me out of here! My people have gone mad!" |
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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 28, 2014 15:30:40 GMT -5
The most likes I have on anything I've posted is 13. I feel so impotent. Hey, 13 likes is a lot! Nothing I post on my author page gets that many. I'd have to post a pic of my kids or some amazing professional news on my personal profile (you know ... those things everyone feels they *have* to like) to get that many. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2014 15:45:05 GMT -5
I think Facebook keeps people from seeing posts for the most part, unless the poster pays for them.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2014 15:52:19 GMT -5
I'm not sure whether it's individual FB users, or FB itself, or both - but FB culture *really* likes visual soundbites, so to speak - something they can see, understand, respond to and move on from in a split second. Good photos work best for that.
You can use this to your advantage by making a quick Powerpoint slide and uploading it as an image when you want to say or announce something.
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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 28, 2014 16:17:29 GMT -5
I think Facebook keeps people from seeing posts for the most part, unless the poster pays for them. I don't know. Some people, like Shawn, get great engagement. It's all sort of mysterious to me. ETA: I think he asks questions pretty regularly. I've started trying to do that, but most of my questions are ones people don't seem to want to answer. Heh. |
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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 28, 2014 16:21:15 GMT -5
I'm not sure whether it's individual FB users, or FB itself, or both - but FB culture *really* likes visual soundbites, so to speak - something they can see, understand, respond to and move on from in a split second. Good photos work best for that. You can use this to your advantage by making a quick Powerpoint slide and uploading it as an image when you want to say or announce something. I'm not sure that's still entirely true, kary. I heard a couple months ago that Fb has reoriented its algorithms to favor textual posts, and that's been borne out in my experience, of late ... until this poop one today, which is still going strong with 324 views. My next most engaged post of the week was a simple textual one. It went, "Does anything smell as good as frying onions? I mean, seriously ... *anything*  " That got 73 views. Strange, eh? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2014 17:21:16 GMT -5
I think Facebook keeps people from seeing posts for the most part, unless the poster pays for them. I don't know. Some people, like Shawn, get great engagement. It's all sort of mysterious to me. ETA: I think he asks questions pretty regularly. I've started trying to do that, but most of my questions are ones people don't seem to want to answer. Heh. . They want page owners to pay since they've gone publicly traded. |
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Post by shawninmon on Mar 28, 2014 18:32:37 GMT -5
I've noticed it's gotten tougher this past ten days or so. It feels like there's been a change in the FB algos during that time.
Still... totally stealing that pic and putting it on my feed tonight! (Thanks, Becca!)
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Post by Becca Mills on Mar 28, 2014 18:37:51 GMT -5
I've noticed it's gotten tougher this past ten days or so. It feels like there's been a change in the FB algos during that time. Still... totally stealing that pic and putting it on my feed tonight! (Thanks, Becca!) My pleasure! Do you agree that the dog puts it over the top?  Ridiculously, that post is up to 361 views, now. I hope I get that of coverage on my new book announcement, whenever that happens.  |
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" That got 73 views. Strange, eh?
