Good question, Charles - I would like to know the answer, too. It has to be said that this particular post only reached an organic reach of only 38 people (after two weeks). I think it's worth experimenting further - e.g. it might be different when sharing a new geolocated post, rather than re-sharing one as in this case - but if the numbers are always that low, it's probably not worth it.
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Charles Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone with prior experience know if city-level (or > country/state-level) targetted posts are more likely to be seen by those in > the targetted area, as compared to a non-targetted post? > eg. a post may only show up for 200 out of 1200 fans; if targetted to a city > where 120 of those fans live, will it only appear for approx. 20 of them or > closer to all 120? > > Charles (User:Chuq) > WMAU > > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Jay Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Seems like a good idea to me. >> >> On Mar 26, 2014 11:24 AM, "Tilman Bayer" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Creative Commons asked if we could help to promote this free culture >>> event they are holding tomorrow in San Francisco: >>> http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/42332 . >>> It's not directly directly about Wikimedia-related topics, more about >>> free culture in general, but e.g. Kat Walsh already sent a notice about it >>> to the Wikimedia-SF list a while ago, and previous editions of this series >>> saw quite a bit of Wikimedia involvement. Jay and I discussed it and we >>> think it's OK to re-share the event page on Facebook with the Wikipedia >>> account if it's locally targeted (Facebook does offer city-level targeting >>> in the US). I'm going to do this now targeted with San Francisco, Oakland >>> and Berkeley, and also see it a bit as an experiment - eventually we could >>> offer to do city- or state-targeted posts to organizers of Wikipedia meetups >>> (at least in the US), in addition to the existing >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice . >>> >>> -- >>> Tilman Bayer >>> Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) >>> Wikimedia Foundation >>> IRC (Freenode): HaeB >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Social-media mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Social-media mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > -- Tilman Bayer Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ Social-media mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media
