post algorythmic change anyone notice? past 60 days (6 posts)

Topic tags: algorithm, Facebook
  • first of all, i’m a little of an analytics nut, though i use apps I still do most from hand.
    I just noticed something since september that my posts still get the same kind of response rates % which is pretty high, what you call ER is above 100% since ever.

    Point though is that where 2 months ago I get within minutes 500 likes and then after few hours it would be around 1000 maybe and just die off after that.
    Now posts get shown slower but for a much longer period of time, 3 days after being posted they can still rake in 10’000 more views or 300 likes

    anybody notice this? I noticed some of my friends posts are being shown above others 3,4 days after having happened again even though I saw and liked it already.

    I looked everywhere to find out the algorythm change in the facebook feed that could link to this but couldn’t find it.

    if it changed and how I would plan my posts extremely different accordingly.

    A friend of mine over at the wickedfire forums suggested they are experimenting with something like cred which could explain this

  • Oli, could it have something to do with the settings? Maybe if you have selected ‘top stories’ instead of ‘most recent’ for your newsfeed, stories show up again if they got lots of comments and interaction. The more interaction, the more of a top story the item becomes.

    This is just a thought – not backed up by any figures or research. But I have set my newsfeed to ‘most recent’ and don’t see stories again or if they are ‘old’. On the other hand I noticed, like you, that stories on my pages that are already quite old still get likes many hours or even days later.

  • hej claudiayeah, though this has been a feature available for long.

    I’m meaning some of my pages posts, they still get the same response rate, maybe a little more (as a normal upcurve should be) but the likes come in over a longer time spread means people don’t get to see the posts right away
    but at different times spready over maybe 5 days

    i have a few other pages but not with a significant audience like this  so it’s hard to measure

  • wish the ‘top stories’ would stay away until I called it, but that is the reverse of FB logic. it is most read, therefore important. I am annoyed by that.

  • we have a long thread about just that here: http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/reach-scheduled-posts/

  • thanks, i continued in that thread jenetta


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