Since trying to get help from FB is pointless I thought I would give this a shot.
I have a business page. I have run several ads and targeted foreign countries/languages. Page was opened 11/15 and by April 14 2016 I had roughly 1000-1200 followers-likes.
On April 15 my page likes shot up and kept doing so for approx 2.5 weeks. In that 2.5 week time frame I gained about 5000 followers which I now believe to be fake. They don't engage with anything and it is really killing my page. When I check my page analytical details it shows that those 5000 page likes are API Likes.
What does this mean? I am assuming that some like farmer has latched onto my account due to where I was boosting posts to and is now liking my page through all his fake profiles so he can keep them looking real.
My question is if I delete all the fakes will I be OK to continue using the account or should I close it and start over?
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I want to do something that I thought would be very simple, but Facebook's docs are beyond confusing to me.
A user (that is known to our servers) visits my site, and our Facebook pixel fires a simple page view event. Lets say the user has a UID of 1234 on our server
Sometime later we use the facebook marketing api to send this information to Facebook: "User 1234 has made 9 purchases, totaling $1,500. Their most recent purchase was on January 12th, 2018"
My question is, can we somehow add this UID to the pixel event so that it can be used later in our api call?
Is there any way to track the amount of likes per poster gets? [The term "likes" refers also to the new "reactions" on Facebook.]
For a little bit of background, if you're not familiar with how Facebook pages work when they have multiple admins or editors, this picture shows if you have multiple people who manage the page, Facebook tracks the person who published the post. Now with this in mind, is there any way through the Facebook API or other to track the amount of likes a post gets and associate them with the publisher?
For example, Admin 1 posts 2 posts, one with 2 likes and another with 7 likes. Admin 2 then posts 3 posts, one with 6, one with 1, and one with 4. I would like for it to track that Admin 1 has gotten 9 likes and Admin 2 has gotten 11 likes. Having it keep track of the amount of posts per admin would also be great. This would make for a great system to reward admins who post more enjoyable or well-received content. Having it track other stats such as post reach, comments, etc. would also be great.
Now before any of you say that I could do this manually, I'd like a real-time count. Doing it manually is definitely possible but a real-time count (or a refresh at a certain interval) would definitely be better, easier, more accurate (especially with bigger pages who constantly get new likes on old posts).
If this is possible, it would be amazing!
Thanks everyone!
Until recently, one could put a Like button on a web page, and if you were listed as the admin in the "fb:admins" tag on the page, and you then clicked the "Like" button yourself, an admin page would be created in your personal Facebook account where you could send updates to fans who had liked your web page. This is being phased out on November 7, by which time one needs to convert all such pages to "real" facebook pages following the procedure Facebook documents here:
developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/migration/
Our nonprofit organization operates web pages (and Facebook pages) for just over 200 breed-specific animal rescue groups, all of which have Facebook like buttons on each web page. I've successfully migrated over about 20 of these pages using the procedure designated in the page above.
The problem I'm having is that at some point recently, Facebook stopped creating the Admin pages when a page admin likes a web page. This means, for about 80% or so of the rescue pages we have (many with 1000's of likes), I have no way to "migrate" them because there is no page to migrate.
All of these pages have identical code as the pages I was able to migrate, the only difference is I never went, and as page Admin, clicked the Like button on any of these pages, so Facebook never created any page which I can use for the migration process. (I would have done this months ago had I known Facebook was phasing out this ability, but I don't think it was ever announced.)
I don't know when Facebook discontinued creating Admin pages for web pages with Like buttons, but having discontinued it before the November 7 actual migration deadline, we have no way now to access the likes from many of our web pages to migrate them over to our actual Facebook pages.
This might be better illustrated by examples. We operate a page for Pit Bull Rescue here:
http://pitbull.rescueme.org/
I successfully migrated the "Likes" from that page to our actual Facebook page here using the documentation on Facebook's migration page:
http://www.facebook.com/pitbull.rescueme.org
(Note the "Like" count on the Facebook on the web page is higher, because Facebook counts certain shares on a page, that don't count as actual likes on a Facebook page.)
But here's a page with the problem: australianshepherd.rescueme.org
It has 383 Likes but there is no way for me to migrate those likes over because there is no associated page in my Facebook account to migrate. I created a Facebook page to merge these likes into ( www.facebook.com/australianshepherd.rescueme.org ) but don't know how to get them there.
In the past I would have just clicked the Like button on the WEB page itself, and an Admin page would have been created. Apparently Facebook discontinued that ability at some point long before the November 7 migration deadline, so I have no idea how I can fix this.
I imagine (or hope) there is some parameter perhaps I can switch in some app settings panel to help with this, but I can't find any way to do it. Any suggestions?
I've been told I need to ask someone at Facebook to manually transfer "Likes" from such pages over to our actual Facebook pages, but have not been able to reach someone to do this. If this is the necessary step, can someone from Facebook please contact me privately, or post here how to get that type of assistance.
If this was just a few hundred likes it wouldn't be a big deal, but cumulatively I believe we have well over 100,000 fans we will lose if we can't fix this. The hundreds of volunteers running all these rescue group web pages who spent many hours each week over the past year building up our fan base, aren't going to be pleased about learning all their efforts will be lost.
Any suggestions would be very, very appreciated!
Sincerely,
Jeff Gold
This was announced back in July. https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2012/07/25/platform-updates--operation-developer-love/
It is very important for all developers who integrate their products with Facebook to follow the Facebook developer blog. It keeps readers up to date with 90-day breaking changes.
I used to have about 1200 fans and my stats would show that my pages would be seen hundreds of times, often over 1,000.
Then there was a major Facebook overhaul, which amongst other things, only showed the most popular posts on people's walls. Ever since, and despite that my FB fan base has grown to more than 1800, so often I get no more then 200 or 300 organic views for a post.
I've researched the best days and times, and after about a year and graphing, I discovered that Tuesday nights at 6:30 are my most popular times. On Tuesdays at 6:30 On August 21st I got 1,000 views, which thrilled me, but since then, on Tuesdays and other days/times I've tried, I'm lucky if even 300 out of my 1,800 even see my post.
What can I possibly do to make sure that the maximum number of fans are at least seeing my posts?
They are trying to get you to pay for promoted posts. The only way to now get all your fans to see your post is to pay for that privilege. If you don't pay, only a subset of your fans will see a post.
Of course the night that I posted this, I saw reports about a new feature. I still can't find the official notification, but this is a good story and it has full instructions.
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/responding-criticism-facebook-adds-way-you-really-really-something-1C6669506
So it is a matter of all page owners educating the end users that they need to take an additional step. This isn't great, but it is an improvement.
Can we get relationship status changes of our friends from last 3 days including present day
what my app requires is the data of the friends who recently engaged/married etc
AND
Anniversary details from last 3 days to next 15 days (may be this can be done by reading the friends posts on our wall with happy anniversary etc but how to get the friends wall post data posted by others using facebook api
and status updates of last 3 days including present day and comments and likes on those status updates
Graph API or FQL both are fine
I am using facebook c# sdk for my windows phone app
First of all, you must have some pretty … interesting … friends, if you’re interested in their relationship status changes for intervals of three days – or are you trying to build an app for finding rebound s*x partners …? ;-)
Well, as all of the user fields (except verified) are available for real time updates, that could be one way for you to get notified of such changes (and then put their “history” into your own database).