How to get responses to your Facebook posts

As part of its outreach to journalists, Facebook now says including "analysis and personal reflections" is one of the key ways to ensure that your posts get noticed and don't just sink like a stone. Posts that ask questions or seek input from users do even better; perhaps for obvious reasons, such posts received double the comments. And here's bad news for Twitter: Longer posts on average generated more user feedback (in the form of comments and likes).

July 14, 2011

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