Confused about Facebook stats

[Imagine]

OK - I'm fairly tech-savvy, or I should be being a programmer for a living.

But, there's something I really don't understand at the moment.

Obviously I've been busy this past week with 5 gigs in 5 days, and there's been various posts on the Book of Faces each time plus an end of gig report as I always do. Normally, my post reach averages between 100-150 people, sometimes a few more but never anything spectacular (one of next year's todo list items is to to use social media a bit more to my advantage).

However, I put a post up in the early hours of Saturday morning (a gig report) with an iPhoto (is that what it's called? :confused:) montage of half a dozen pics. My post reach for this one post (and it's only this one post) is now nearly 8,000! Subsequent posts are back down to the normal averages.

So, any social media experts on here got any idea why this has happened on just this one post?

I've done these ones before and it's made no difference whatsoever. I'm assuming the 8k reach means it's potentially appeared in 8,000 people's news feeds (I've only got 122 followers).

[Benny Smyth]

Can you screenshot it please, Wayne?

[Imagine]

Can you screenshot it please, Wayne?

What? The post?

[Benny Smyth]

What? The post?

Just the 8000 figure would do the job. Just want to see where that's being reported and hopefully be able to give an answer. :)

[Imagine]

Just the 8000 figure would do the job. Just want to see where that's being reported and hopefully be able to give an answer. :)

OK. I misread the stats slightly - the 8k is my total reach for the week. The post concerned is actually 7.2k (but what's 800 between friends? ) ;)

Still discombobulated though

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[Benny Smyth]

The post concerned is actually 7.2k (but what's 800 between friends? ) ;)

LIES!!! Feelings are hurt.

Well...to my understanding, your post has appeared in 7.2k people's news feeds, searches etc. How many of those people actually 'saw' the post is another matter (especially in searches). The fact that the venue name is in the post could have possibly helped with the rise in reach, but that is a massive anomaly. I've even hit Google to ensure that my understanding is correct and what I've read seems to correlate.

Long/short of it is that you need to post at five to two on a Saturday morning for the best reach. :p

[Imagine]

LIES!!! Feelings are hurt.

No - shattered, drained, emotionally and physically knackered and not seeing things correctly (a couple of beers have helped this too)



Long/short of it is that you need to post at five to two on a Saturday morning for the best reach. :p
Blow that for a game of billiards!!!

That said, I normally post around then and it's never had this effect. Maybe I need to start tagging the venue more often

[ukpartydj]

Reached does include things like if I saw my friend liked your post from my understanding but still that's a lot it seems!

I only got 650 from a post to which had 5 shares! And it was a bloody good post if I am allowed to blown own trumpet.

[Excalibur]

. Maybe I need to start tagging* the venue more often
On no account even consider this! :mad::Naughty: We can't have DJs wandering about spraying " DJ Fantastic" and the like all over buildings.



* I've got no idea at all about Facebook, but I do know one interpretation of " tagging ". :D

[DeckstarDeluxe]

You're doing something right if you average 125 views per post with only barely that many followers!

[ppentertainments]

You're doing something right if you average 125 views per post with only barely that many followers!

That was my thinking too lol.

[DJColsie]

I posted a edited collection of video from weddings last year in Oct.

My normal reach is about 80-100. This one made about 300/400!

2 days later I had a message from a lady asking me to take it down as it had a "disturbing" scene of her husband dancing with his mistress!

Said video was removed from the Facebook page but still remains on my website!

[yourdj]

My post reach for this one post (and it's only this one post) is now nearly 8,000!


Have you done a Benny and added any cleavage shots without noticing? :p




2 days later I had a message from a lady asking me to take it down as it had a "disturbing" scene of her husband dancing with his mistress!

Thats funny - serves him right! only takes one person to share it and a post could go viral. Its amazing how much interest I get on my feed if once in a blue moon I post a baby photo!! It gets 50 likes in a matter of hours! I posted a photo of myself pretty much naked once as a test and only a few gay friends commented, so no one wants to see me thats for sure. :o:o


On the topic of Facebook, i could not care a less now if someone enquiries via my page as they all lead to a dead end, i find it really rude, when I write a nice reply and they do not get back too me. Must be 90% of the time through my page now!! I spent a year trying to get business through it and gave up. Google and recommendations seem to work best. I use Facebook as a means to personalise my site and show people what we have been up to. Its amazing the lengths clients can go to research what you do and how you do it. Thats the type of client i want. Not the 'Oi Kev have you booked the disco yet, our weddings next month and its the only thing I have asked you to do?'. :)

[Imagine]

On the topic of Facebook, i could not care a less now if someone enquiries via my page as they all lead to a dead end, i find it really rude, when I write a nice reply and they do not get back too me. Must be 90% of the time through my page now!! I spent a year trying to get business through it and gave up. Google and recommendations seem to work best. I use Facebook as a means to personalise my site and show people what we have been up to. Its amazing the lengths clients can go to research what you do and how you do it. Thats the type of client i want. Not the 'Oi Kev have you booked the disco yet, our weddings next month and its the only thing I have asked you to do?'. :)

My experience is much the same. Used to do OK from it for kids parties but I don't really do those anymore apart from for people that I know. Most enquiries for adult stuff have been the ones that want it as cheap as chips, and that's not me.

I've worked damned hard on SEO this past year after dropping the ball this time last year (hence a really bad start to 2016 for me), and Facebook is just one of the components of that (as is Google+ and Twatter as much as I hate it). It's an easy way for me to show what I'm doing for potential customers that do take the time to have a look at everything. It's also a very convenient way to collect customer reviews which can be seen by the public as being real (as opposed to just publishing emails).

Strangely that particular post is now up to 8,013 reach. I'm beginning to wonder if it IS to do with the fact that I tagged the venue (logically it would appear in the feeds of people that have liked/followed the venue), and being one of the big Cambridge colleges, it's got a LOT of followers.

Funny enough I've just looked back at a couple of older posts where I tagged the venue in the post, and there seems to be a pattern there. As an experiment, I've just tagged a couple of photos from another one of the colleges I went to last week. It'll be interesting to see the results.

[yourdj]

It's also a very convenient way to collect customer reviews which can be seen by the public as being real (as opposed to just publishing emails).

Oh yes I am loving that as yes it is undisputedly real, especially if users can see the wedding photos on someone timeline. I have not pushed it but have about 20 reviews now which is very nice for any woodby customers. I love it when they say 'we debated about the all day, and now are so glad we booked it as it made the wedding' stuff like that. Makes me quite proud actually as i have worked hard and love my job. Yes i may be a 'clueless muppet', but I have a lot of very happy clients, so thats the main thing. :o

[Nakatomi]

Oh yes I am loving that as yes it is undisputedly real, especially if users can see the wedding photos on someone timeline. I have not pushed it but have about 20 reviews now which is very nice for any woodby customers. I love it when they say 'we debated about the all day, and now are so glad we booked it as it made the wedding' stuff like that. Makes me quite proud actually as i have worked hard and love my job. Yes i may be a 'clueless muppet', but I have a lot of very happy clients, so thats the main thing. :o

LOL Toby for a'clueless muppet' you do very well indeed. There's even hope for me! :rofl:

[ppentertainments]

Oh yes I am loving that as yes it is undisputedly real, especially if users can see the wedding photos on someone timeline. I have not pushed it but have about 20 reviews now which is very nice for any woodby customers. I love it when they say 'we debated about the all day, and now are so glad we booked it as it made the wedding' stuff like that. Makes me quite proud actually as i have worked hard and love my job. Yes i may be a 'clueless muppet', but I have a lot of very happy clients, so thats the main thing. :o
The only flaw is that if anyone was to post a negative review it is very very difficult to get it removed. Otherwise it would be an almost 'perfect' tool.

[ukpartydj]

The only flaw is that if anyone was to post a negative review it is very very difficult to get it removed. Otherwise it would be an almost 'perfect' tool.

Indeed, I encourage reviews on facebook but then will add them to my website manually so I have control on my website. It's an odd one though as sometimes you can try your hardest and do everything right but the client gives you 4/5 (which to me isn't good enough) because of something you couldn't have helped.

Recently I got 4.5/5 which was essentially because they were running late and I took a little too long to setup (40mins)... oddly they never mentioned that on public review sites leaving me no way of explaining in a response.
I got a 4/5 where I'm assuming (as the night went brilliantly) it was due to the photo booth guys were having technical problems, I decided to offer my help as I was a bit more tech savvy then them and thought better I save the photo booth and risk being a few minutes behind on my timings for the first dance. Oddly enough I had the same happen at the weekend, I left a playlist running (almost the same situation) but every problem I solved came up with another and it would have needed to roll back the update they just installed which I know from experiance takes nearly a good bloody hour, so I left them to it after spending an hour myself on and off helping. I'm hoping for a 5/5 for this one though as the client actually saw me helping them :D

[ppentertainments]

Indeed, I encourage reviews on facebook but then will add them to my website manually so I have control on my website. It's an odd one though as sometimes you can try your hardest and do everything right but the client gives you 4/5 (which to me isn't good enough) because of something you couldn't have helped.

Recently I got 4.5/5 which was essentially because they were running late and I took a little too long to setup (40mins)... oddly they never mentioned that on public review sites leaving me no way of explaining in a response.
I got a 4/5 where I'm assuming (as the night went brilliantly) it was due to the photo booth guys were having technical problems, I decided to offer my help as I was a bit more tech savvy then them and thought better I save the photo booth and risk being a few minutes behind on my timings for the first dance. Oddly enough I had the same happen at the weekend, I left a playlist running (almost the same situation) but every problem I solved came up with another and it would have needed to roll back the update they just installed which I know from experiance takes nearly a good bloody hour, so I left them to it after spending an hour myself on and off helping. I'm hoping for a 5/5 for this one though as the client actually saw me helping them :D

Ooh I hate that. I got a little negative feedback during the summer as, although it was a great night, everyone enjoyed the disco, there weren't enough tables and chairs in the room and the floor hadn't been swept properly before the disco. Luckily it was only on my own feedback means as opposed to FB etc, but you still wonder what people are thinking at times lol