Posts about Zuckerberg's world-destroying data gathering machine.
Facebook & news publishers: a rocky relationship Paid Members Public
How are Facebook’s efforts to reach out to publishers [https://digiday.com/media/inside-facebook-team-thats-charged-keeping-publishers-happy/] going? > “To call this group a partnership group is a joke in and of itself,” one executive at a major publisher said. “It’s a complete misnomer. We’re having really meaningful conversations with
Live by the Facebook, die by the Facebook Paid Members Public
There’s a lot of unhappy Macedonian publishers right now [https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/macedonian-publishers-are-panicking-after-facebook-killed] , as Craig Silverman reports for Buzzfeed: > “I’m in a very inappropriate situation, after spending a huge amount of money on Facebook for promoting articles and Page likes,” said a Macedonian publisher who
Do people read what they share and like on Facebook? Paid Members Public
Chartbeat have been diving deep on the data [http://blog.chartbeat.com/2017/04/11/do-people-actually-read-what-they-share-on-social-channels/] and the answer is… > While there is a small positive correlation between shares and total engagement, the relationship between the two is quite weak. For stories that attracted 1000 shares on Facebook, the
Facebook rolling out text statuses with coloured backgrounds to the web Paid Members Public
This afternoon, I took a little light mockery from a friend [https://twitter.com/ilicco] for posting a Facebook update that looks like this: He had assumed I was algorithm-gaming by posting my update as an image, not text. But I wasn’t. Instead, while making the post, I’d
Some follow up on the Google News Lab University Network Paid Members Public
Two bits of feedback to yesterday’s piece on the Google News Lab University Network [https://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2016/12/fake-news-political-propaganda.html] . The Frenemy Dance > Remember when Google was the enemy in many publishers’ eyes? It appears it and Facebook have swapped… — Adam Tinworth (@adders) December 6,
Facebook's not the filter bubble, we are Paid Members Public
Interesting – and quite important – experiment from The Guardian – exposing the right and left in the US to Facebook newsfeeds [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/16/facebook-bias-bubble-us-election-conservative-liberal-news-feed] from the other side of politics: > Tobias said that exposure to the other side made her realize how difficult it might
Facebook acquires content sharing tracking tool CrowdTangle Paid Members Public
Alex Heath for Business Insider [http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-buys-crowdtangle-social-media-tracking-tool-2016-11] : > Facebook has acquired CrowdTangle, a four-year-old tool used by publishers like Vox, BuzzFeed, and Mic to track how their content is shared on social media. Click through to CrowdTangle’s customer list [http://www.crowdtangle.com/customers] and look
You're only a journalist if Twitter and Facebook say so. Paid Members Public
The social media platforms decide if we are journalists or not. How… odd.
