Top Ten Progressive Advocacy Facebook Posts (8/25 to 9/1/2014)

Top Facebook Advocacy Posts

Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 400 progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Of note this time? Labor rules Labor Day with an image that worked for three different groups. Plus, cursing toddlers and a Whopper that leaves a bad taste in Robert Reich’s mouth.

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1. Wisconsin State AFL-CIO (896.55%)

 

2. NewsGuild-CWA (185.37%)

 

3. Sheet Metal Air Rail and Transportation Workers (150.73%)

 

4. Plastic Pollution Coalition (136.24%)

 

5. Working America (132.23%)

 

6. United Mine Workers of America (114.7%)

 

7. Reel Girl (114.63%)

 

8. Cuéntame (111.22%)

[Post has been removed, but it was about Burger King.]

 

9. Beauty Redefined (100.99%)

 

10. Jezebel (97.58%)

 

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

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Colin Delany
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