Let me tell you something shitty about having a professional page and being a writer on Facebook – on average, only about 50% of my followers ever get ‘delivered’ my status updates/content. That means Facebook uses whatever algorithms they use to have content competing with mine, and only 50% of the people following me will ever see my content updates on their Facebook news feed.
You know what I have to do to make 100% (or as close to as possible) of my page likers be delivered my content? I need to pay. Usually $5-10 PER POST. So people who’ve followed me, who want to see my writing updates on Facebook, I have to PAY FACEBOOK for them to actually see my updates about me on their feeds.
Tumblr is about to use similar algorithms to determine ‘top’ content on our phones, causing posts to need to compete with each other to be ‘top’. The next step getting content creators to pay to get access to being a ‘top post’, or pay to be more likely to be considered a top post, or at least bumped up in the algorithm. People who don’t pay will be relegated to the depths of their follower’s dashes. Perhaps Tumblr may not even show posts at all if you don’t pay, just like Facebook doesn’t.
Fabulous.
Yeah, it’s such fucking bullshit. I’ve found that not putting links in the post itself, and putting them in comments, makes the posts more likely to show up without having to pay. 😛
Alright, where are the ‘download your profile’ extensions and where are we moving to
Thoughtfulfangirling 