Date(s): Mon, 21 Sep 2026 23:43:22 -070
Parts: 1 of 1
Discussion: September 22, 2026, 01:25 AM – 01:37 AM (America/Detroit)
[Sep 22, 2026 01:25 AM] Gerald: Show me how my content on Facebook did this past year across views, replies, and shares. Tell me which ones performed best, what they had in common, and which ones underperformed and why.
[Sep 22, 2026 01:25 AM] Nimbus: Account's connected. Let me gauge how much data a year's worth of posts is before diving in.
[Sep 22, 2026 01:25 AM] Nimbus: Pulling your full year of Facebook posts now and scoring each one on reactions and replies. I'll have the breakdown — your best, your worst, and what they share — when the numbers are done.
[Sep 22, 2026 01:37 AM] Nimbus: The full year is in. Two honest caveats first: Facebook doesn't expose view counts through any API — only Threads does that — and there's no share count available either. What I could measure is reactions and replies across all 200 posts you authored from Sep 2025 to Sep 2026.
The headline: your engagement baseline is near zero. Median is 0, average is under 1, and 136 of 200 posts got nothing at all. The winners are relative standouts against that.
Your top 5: - Sep 10 — Canada/trade-war commentary — 52 reactions, 4 replies. Ten times the runner-up. - Sep 14 — "They are not listening" call to action — 18 reactions. - Sep 8 — "name the worst president" poll — 2 reactions, 5 replies. The only post all year to draw five comments. - Aug 10 — Musk's trillion-dollar contract, explained by the numbers — 3 reactions, 2 replies. - Sep 14 — "stop 80% of spam with one action" how-to — 2 reactions, 3 replies.
What the winners share: - Text does the work. Top-10 posts average 362 characters of caption; the bottom 10 average 2. A post with no text gives a scroller nothing to stop for. - Politics and current events dominate. 22 of the top 50 are news/politics commentary. Your audience reacts but doesn't debate — 47 of the 52 reactions on your top post were plain Likes, agreement, not argument. - Asking something or teaching something earns the rare reply. Polls and how-to explainers are the only posts that pull comments. - No time-of-day pattern. You post mostly US evenings and winners appear at all hours. - Recent posts punch above older ones — September alone holds most of the top 10. Older posts had more time to accumulate, so this is real: either your audience grew or the content got sharper.
The losers: - Caption-less media posts. 76 of the 136 zero-engagement posts have no text at all. Across the year, posts without captions have a median engagement of 0 versus a 1.5 average for captioned ones. - Cryptic fragments like "From baggy pants" — inside-joke captions that mean nothing to a general audience. - They cluster in Nov–Dec 2025, your quietest posting months — less presence, less attention, compounding the no-text format. You also went silent entirely in January 2026.
The one-sentence version: posts that say something win — a take, a question, a tip — and posts that just show something die.
Full dataset of all 200 posts with per-post numbers is here:
[Sep 22, 2026 01:37 AM] Nimbus: [File delivered: post-metrics-2025-2026.json — full per-post dataset of all 200 Facebook posts]
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