I have the list of definitions for fields in the Facebook API.
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/insights/
The definitions are a brief and not explained. Is there a more detailed description of these somewhere? Specifically:
What is the difference between 'page_posts_impressions' and 'page_impressions'?
I see that the 2nd is larger than the 1st. What other kind of page impression would a user get that is not in their feed?
Also, how are organic and viral defined?
I thought that organic might be generated by the page's postings and viral might be generated by those posting stories about the page.
So I thought that organic + viral = total
I can see on some days this is true but not on others.
Thanks
John
From the page you linked:
page_posts_impressions - The number of impressions that came from all of your posts
page_impressions - The total number of impressions seen of any content associated with your Page
The second includes places users were exposed to your page other than via posts the page itself made, including a user's friends writing on the page wall, sharing a link to the page, etc
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For the talking_about_count figure returned under the Page Graph API (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.3/page) what is the detailed metric definition for this?
All it says currently under the documentation is "the number of people talking about this Page" but what constitutes someone to be talking about a page?
See
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.3/insights#page_stories
The number of people sharing stories about your page ('People Talking About This' / PTAT). These stories include liking your Page, posting to your Page's Wall, liking, commenting on or sharing one of your Page posts, answering a Question you posted, RSVPing to one of your events, mentioning your Page, phototagging your Page or checking in at your Place
I need to read timeline feed in facebook public pages. I have used syntax to get the feed from timeline:
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.3/DoveIndia?fields=id,name,picture,feed
It works well and returns the feed,when facebook page not have "Posts To Page".
When Page have "Posts To Page",it only returns all posted messages on page not timeline feeds.
Example of a request(Graph API Explorer tools):
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.3/jeep?fields=id,name,picture,feed
Please suggest how can read feed from timelines?
Thanks
Sameek
/{page-id}/posts shows only the posts that were published by this page.
Source: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.3/page/feed
The feed of posts (including status updates) and links published by this person, or by others on this person's profile. There are other edges which provide filtered versions of this edge:
/{user-id}/posts shows only the posts that were published by this person.
/{user-id}/tagged shows only the posts that this person was tagged in.
All of these derivative edges share the exact same reading structure, however /feed should be used for all publishing purposes.
Clicking a post in Facebook's post insights shows a summary like this:
I am however bamboozled as to how a post can have 8 likes, 3 comments and 2 shares on shares of this post, without that post having been shared ('0 on post').
Trying to gain further insight into this:
/{post-id}/insights doesn't return any share information.
/{post-id}/sharedposts returns an empty set, even for posts that have been directly shared.
/{page-id}/posts just indicates the "shares on posts" (not on shares) and even omits that if it's zero like in this case.
Where can I find the "On Shares" figures in the api?
Maybe "on shares" is from people who liked the post because their friend liked it. and the original person hasn't liked the page. because the same issue happened with my account 2 Point Perspective and it didn't receive any "shares"!!
As far as I can conclude, "on shares" numbers can be calculated by total minus "on post" numbers. You can get total numbers from
/{page_id}_{post_id}/insights/post_stories_by_action_type
and "on post" numbers from
/{page_id}_{post_id}/?fields=likes.limit(0).summary(true),comments.limit(0).summary(true),shares
You should be able to get these numbers from /{page_id}_{post_id}/sharedposts/..., but as of this bug report, you won't be able to do so actually.
Also watch out for permissions and Graph API version number.
Had to think this through for awhile, but I finally got it (I think).
What it's basically saying is the following.
First line: you received a total of 8 Likes. The 8 Likes didn't come from your direct post. It came from the shares of other users (however many shares that was).
Second line: same situation as above. Except this time, you had 1 comment on your direct post, while 3 comments came from shares.
Third line: you get the gist.
Here is the exact language that describes how this works from Facebook.
"The metrics you see on a Page post when viewed from your Page's Timeline or in News Feed include likes, comments and shares that happened on the original post. The metrics in your Page Insights include likes, comments and shares from the original post plus any activity that happened if your post was shared. For example, if someone shares your post, and then their friend shares that post, this will be counted as 2 shares in Page Insights."
Source: https://www.facebook.com/help/336143376466063/
Will google search rankings pick up on links posted by someone as a status increasing the rank of the add(link building)?
I don't think so.
I tried to get all indexed webpage of FB. I don't see any specific posts in the list. Other places where you see posts (ex. your profile) is asynchronously loaded, so no crawling there.
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=site%3Afacebook.com&oq=site%3Afacebook.com&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i58.3257j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=91&ie=UTF-8#q=site:facebook.com&start=290
I have an issue with the like button count on a webpage beeing much higher than the count reported in Facebook Insights for that same page on my domain.
For example when I look at an article that has been published for two days the button on site reports 18 likes. If i select the same timespan for that article in Facebook insights it reports 4 likes and 2 shares.
How can the numbers differ so much?
Thank´s for any advice!
I have the same problem, just Googled and found this post: http://faso.com/fineartviews/21028/facebook-like-button-count-inaccuracies. It explains very in details why and how.