Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the several hundred progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Remember, these are posts that have seen significantly more engagement than the norm for their pages.
If you like this list, be sure to check out our similar list of the week’s Top Ten 2016 Presidential Campaign Facebook Posts, released on Fridays.
A special note to our readers-via-email: be sure to click through to the online version of this article to see the embedded posts. It’s well worth your time. Or, browse through past Top 10 lists.
1. AFT – American Federation of Teachers (46.21%)
In Detroit, schools have been left to crumble. Watch this heartbreaking video, then sign our petition to fully and fairly fund Detroit schools.
Posted by AFT – American Federation of Teachers on Friday, January 15, 2016
2. DeadState (39.77%)
Posted by DeadState on Friday, January 15, 2016
3. International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) (35.96%)
#Friedrichs #WorkTogether
Posted by International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) on Friday, January 15, 2016
4. Occupy Democrats (33.50%)
Post hidden or deleted; was a video of an astronaut on the space station singing Bowie’s “Space Oddity”…not exactly advocacy content, but good for audience engagement.
5. DeadState (32.56%)
Posted by DeadState on Wednesday, January 13, 2016
6. Sierra Club – Grand Canyon (Arizona) Chapter (24.66%)
7. The Reprimand Project (22.43%)
Posted by The Reprimand Project on Wednesday, January 13, 2016
8. Girl Du Jour (20.21%)
Think about it. Take all the time you need.
Posted by Girl Du Jour on Saturday, January 16, 2016
9. AFL-CIO (19.06%)
Via UAW Region 1
Posted by AFL-CIO on Friday, January 15, 2016
10. Sandra Steingraber (18.69%)
"'Whatever else may be in the gas—benzene, toluene, xylene —that is what people may be breathing,' said Nathan Phillips,…
Posted by Sandra Steingraber on Thursday, January 14, 2016
Explanation of the Scoring
These posts don’t represent the most-viewed pieces of content on Facebook (since that would almost entirely end up being dominated by the same small handful of large-audience Pages over and over). Instead, we list the posts that performed the best (using shares as the primary metric) against the organization Page’s OWN average (hence the word “over-performing”). To build the list, we CrowdTangle’s tracking system, which generates an average rate of growth for Pages over time (with at least 50 data points before a Page is scored). So, the "x" numbers listed above specifically represent how many more multiples of shares each post received compared with what the Page’s posts normally get. Note that we set a minimum bar of total engagement of around 500 shares or so.
About CrowdTangle
CrowdTangle is a new tool that helps organizations easily keep track of what’s being shared on Facebook. Organizations can use it to find shareable content around their own issue area or to keep track of what affiliated Pages are posting on a regular basis. Launched in late January, the beta version of the tool is already being used by dozens of leading organizations across the country. If you want to see how it works, watch this short video: http://www.screenr.com/Iv1H
– cpd