Number of likes of Mitt Romney on Facebook decreasing constantly

Is that surprising? I'd imagine the loser in every state's gubernatorial race is also trending down on Facebook. McCain? All washed up on Facebook, too, right?

Re: Number of likes of Mitt Romney on Facebook decreasing constantly

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Post by ojiikun » Sun, Nov 11, 2012, 1:57 AM UTC

I actually love the idea of this tool in general. Would be neat to open it up where you can just paste in the URL of any FB page and get the counter/deltas!

I'd also suggest adding a cumulative delta counter, rather than just the delta per poll. That way I can load up the page and come back an hour later and get an even better feel for the changes. Maybe also add a rate (delta/hour) field?

Awesome work!

Re: Number of likes of Mitt Romney on Facebook decreasing constantly

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Post by PanMan » Sun, Nov 11, 2012, 1:57 AM UTC

woutervdb wrote: post #3

Server is getting hotter and hotter, internet connection is getting slower and slower...

Why are you going via your server? Couldn't you have the JS get the data from Facebook's Graph API directly?

Re: Number of likes of Mitt Romney on Facebook decreasing constantly

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Post by ojiikun » Sun, Nov 11, 2012, 2:04 AM UTC

ppetty wrote: post #5

Is that surprising? I'd imagine the loser in every state's gubernatorial race is also trending down on Facebook. McCain? All washed up on Facebook, too, right?

I don't think it's surprising, but to watch the actual data change in real-time is fascinating. We're entering the era of real-time, fine-grained, high-scale opinon metrics like never before.

Re: Number of likes of Mitt Romney on Facebook decreasing constantly

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Post by dpritchett » Sun, Nov 11, 2012, 2:10 AM UTC

PanMan wrote: post #7

woutervdb wrote: post #3

Server is getting hotter and hotter, internet connection is getting slower and slower...

Why are you going via your server? Couldn't you have the JS get the data from Facebook's Graph API directly?

Yep, this page handled entirely client-side, with some analytics JS on top for good measure:

    setInterval(
      function() {
        $.getJSON(
          "https://graph.facebook.com/mittromney",
          function(results) {
            console.log("Mitt Romney Like Count: " + results.likes)})},
      5000)

Edit: Love the idea, glad the page is out there! Great conversation starter.

Re: Number of likes of Mitt Romney on Facebook decreasing constantly

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Post by meatsock » Sun, Nov 11, 2012, 2:26 AM UTC

ppetty wrote: post #5

Is that surprising? I'd imagine the loser in every state's gubernatorial race is also trending down on Facebook. McCain? All washed up on Facebook, too, right?

so create two index "funds", "avg number of likes of people who just lost an election" and "avg number of likes of GOP" and see if the former post-loss delta is more or less than the overall delta of the latter. i suspect that recently losing an election has a greater effect.