I think (based on my observation) that the "reading time" seems to be important as well. articles with less than 3min are almost never picked in the social media. From my 9 "100 collections" only 1 was picked while other articles that I consider less effort are picked because they have more content.
I also found some poor listcle there: twitter.com/ThePracticalDev/status... .. I got surprised and asked the Team for the "why"
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Ah that is an interesting point on the reading time! In all fairness to that listicle it isn't a complete low effort post, they did at least use proper headings and insert screenshots! 😋 hehe.
Interesting that only one of your CSS posts got picked...that makes me think that tags do indeed factor into it quite highly, I would have thought a popular series like that would have been ideal for twitter (I am especially surprised as they were all pretty high view counts!) - out of interest which one got the Twitter boost?
Anyway, I was trying not to speculate as I am sure I will get it wrong. I don't want to @ any of the DEV team but I do hope one of them pops up and lets us know what the rules / criteria are!
Accessibility First DevRel. I focus on ensuring content created, events held and company assets are as accessible as possible, for as many people as possible.
Interesting as I would have expected the top 7 boost to result in more engagement than twitter.
More questions than it answers now! I know the stats on posts aren't great but did you notice a significant boost from social media? Or was it just that that particular post was just so unique and high effort at the time that you think everyone decided to read it (as when I first saw that post I did think "better up my game" as it seemed to be much higher effort than most posts at the time!)?
Accessibility First DevRel. I focus on ensuring content created, events held and company assets are as accessible as possible, for as many people as possible.
Well I have been putting it off, but I think it is time to return to social media, 10 years without using it properly (I was ahead of the curve realising it was bad for you!)...but business over personal interest, hopefully I can pay someone else to manage it pretty quickly so I don't get sucked back in!
Super useful, the last kick I needed to pull my finger out, thanks as always!
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I think (based on my observation) that the "reading time" seems to be important as well. articles with less than 3min are almost never picked in the social media. From my 9 "100 collections" only 1 was picked while other articles that I consider less effort are picked because they have more content.
I also found some poor listcle there: twitter.com/ThePracticalDev/status... .. I got surprised and asked the Team for the "why"
Ah that is an interesting point on the reading time! In all fairness to that listicle it isn't a complete low effort post, they did at least use proper headings and insert screenshots! 😋 hehe.
Interesting that only one of your CSS posts got picked...that makes me think that tags do indeed factor into it quite highly, I would have thought a popular series like that would have been ideal for twitter (I am especially surprised as they were all pretty high view counts!) - out of interest which one got the Twitter boost?
Anyway, I was trying not to speculate as I am sure I will get it wrong. I don't want to @ any of the DEV team but I do hope one of them pops up and lets us know what the rules / criteria are!
The first one got the boost: twitter.com/ThePracticalDev/status... and the second one got the Top 7 (but no social boost) dev.to/afif/another-100-underline-...
Interesting as I would have expected the top 7 boost to result in more engagement than twitter.
More questions than it answers now! I know the stats on posts aren't great but did you notice a significant boost from social media? Or was it just that that particular post was just so unique and high effort at the time that you think everyone decided to read it (as when I first saw that post I did think "better up my game" as it seemed to be much higher effort than most posts at the time!)?
I would say yes because the two collections that got the most reactions/views are the ones shared the most on social media (not necessarely by DEV)
https://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fdev.to%2Fafif%2Fi-made-100-css-loaders-for-your-next-project-4eje&src=typed_query
https://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fdev.to%2Fafif%2F100-underline-overlay-animation-the-ultimate-css-collection-4p40&src=typed_query
Well I have been putting it off, but I think it is time to return to social media, 10 years without using it properly (I was ahead of the curve realising it was bad for you!)...but business over personal interest, hopefully I can pay someone else to manage it pretty quickly so I don't get sucked back in!
Super useful, the last kick I needed to pull my finger out, thanks as always!