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Add longitudinal "Likes" development to FB pages #6

Open lukaskawerau opened 7 years ago

lukaskawerau commented 7 years ago

One thing that I've come across a couple of times and talked about with a bunch of people but for which I've never found a good solution is a way to track the development of "Likes" a given page has. FB does not offer that as part of their API, but it's of obvious interest for pages that one starts to track.

Would it be possible/sensible to add such an option? This probably needs a dedicated page_likes table that saves a timestamp, the page_id and the num_likes of a given page.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this.

bstarling commented 7 years ago

Definitely a good idea. I think it would be good to have similar functionality for tracking growth of a twitter profile over time (# following). I'm thinking this should be implemented as poll_<object>

lukaskawerau commented 7 years ago

Considering that people will most likely run their collections regularly to get updates, we should probably add this for the reaction counts of posts and comments too. A comment that was posted an hour ago will have a very different like-count than one that was posted 5h ago, which would significantly skew analysis if not taken into account

bstarling commented 7 years ago

Also agree with this.