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Twitter is now X. Here's what that means.

Trend – The internet is abuzz as the app formerly known as Twitter announced a name change over the weekend. X.com now redirects to Twitter.com, although the social media platform still invites users to “tweet.” The rebrand is another step in the ongoing transformation of Twitter, an online watering hole for hyper-connected people that aspires to become an app that can do “everything,” according…

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The Best Times to Schedule Facebook Posts for Optimal Results

Mastering the art of social media timing can significantly impact your engagement rates and brand visibility. For marketers, businesses, and content creators, It's essential to know when to schedule Facebook posts. With billions of users worldwide, Facebook has unique peak activity periods that can maximize the reach and effectiveness of your content. Understanding these patterns and aligning them with your audience's behavior ensures your posts never get lost in the crowd.

In this blog, We will explore the science behind Facebook timing and share actionable tips for creating a winning strategy.

Why Timing Matters on Facebook

Facebook’s algorithm prioritizes content that receives early engagement, meaning timing is critical. Content is more likely to show up in your audience's feeds if you post while they are actively engaging. Miss the mark, and even the most compelling posts might go unnoticed. A well-planned schedule ensures your content aligns with audience habits, driving better results.

General Best Times to Post on Facebook

Research shows that Facebook engagement tends to peak on certain days and times. While these can vary based on your industry and audience, here are some general guidelines:

During the week, particularly Tuesday through Thursday: Engagement levels are often greater in the middle of the week than on Mondays and Fridays.

Midday hours (10 AM to 3 PM): People often scroll through Facebook during lunch breaks or downtime.

Early evenings (7 PM to 9 PM): As people unwind after work, engagement levels rise.

These times provide a baseline, but tailoring them to your audience’s habits is key.

Factors Influencing Optimal Posting Times

The “best time” isn’t universal. Several factors influence when your audience is most active, including:

Geographic Location: Consider time zones if your audience is global.

Demographics: Younger users may engage at different times than older demographics.

Industry Type: Retail audiences might be more active in the evenings, while B2B audiences peak during work hours.

Analyzing your audience's behavior through social media Insights can offer invaluable data to refine your posting strategy.

How to Identify Your Audience’s Activity Patterns

Use Facebook Insights: Dive into the "When Your Fans Are Online" section to see peak activity hours.

Experiment with Posting Times: Post at various times and track the engagement metrics to identify trends.

Analyze Competitor Behavior: Check when your competitors post and see how their audience reacts.

You can optimize the impact of your information delivery by comprehending these patterns.

Tools to Simplify Facebook Scheduling

Efficiently managing your posting schedule is easier with the right tools. Platforms like Socinator, Hootsuite, Buffer, and Meta Business Suite help the process of Facebook automation. A Facebook content calendar can further streamline your strategy, ensuring you’re consistent and strategic with your posting efforts.

Tailoring Strategies for Different Content Types

Not all content performs equally well at the same time. For instance:

Promotional Posts: Early mornings or midday hours often work best to grab attention during high-traffic periods.

Engaging Content (Polls, Questions): Evening hours are ideal when users are more likely to interact.

Videos and Live Streams: Schedule these during weekends or late evenings when users have more time to watch.

Diversifying your strategy based on content type keeps your audience engaged and helps meet different campaign objectives.

Best Practices for Scheduling Facebook Posts

The Key Is Consistency: Regular posting keeps your audience interested and fosters trust.

Test and Adapt: Use A/B testing to experiment with timing and refine your strategy.

Leverage Analytics: Regularly review performance metrics to identify what’s working.

These practices not only optimize your schedule but also improve your overall Facebook marketing strategy.

Also, watch this video - How to Auto Post on Facebook By using Socinator

Wrapping up

Strategic timing is essential to stand out in the crowded world of social media. By learning the best times to schedule Facebook posts, you can enhance visibility, drive engagement, and achieve your marketing goals. Pairing this timing strategy with a comprehensive Facebook content calendar ensures you stay organized and consistent. The combination of data-driven insights and careful planning sets you on the path to mastering Facebook marketing success. Now is the time to refine your strategy and post with purpose.

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This infographic provides simple, actionable tips on how to efficiently schedule Facebook posts and maximize your social media strategy.

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What type of content should I create to attract followers on Facebook?

The type of content you should explore creating to attract followers on Facebook is short-form videos and images.

Ensure the content is creative, educational, or entertaining depending on your specific needs, or a combination of these elements to capture attention and drive engagement.

Do you know? - “Social Insider reveals that Facebook posts with photos garner 2.3 times more engagement than text-only posts” – DailyZoo Newsletter

Here's related information that you may find helpful:

Image Content Source - Insights from Social Trends 2024 Report by Hootsuite

Here's related information that you may also find helpful – What are Facebook Pages used for? [Take the right advantage].

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating Shareable Facebook Content

The Ultimate Guide to Creating Shareable Facebook Content

Facebook sharing What is Facebook sharing? Facebook sharing is the act of sharing content from one’s Facebook account with friends, followers, or the general public. When a user shares a post, it appears on their timeline or news feed, where it can be seen and interacted with by others. Text, photos, videos, and links are all examples of content that can be shared. Sharing is a fundamental…

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It happened AGAIN: a Facebook page with 83,000+ followers, "Attire's Mind," ripped off the content of one of my dress history posts.

Compare my 1840s readymade men's wear post with the inferior copy (that omits sources and links).

Today it was the Paris Musées redingote post. Notice how "Attire's Mind" uses my image edits (again), and also eliminates my citation while loosely copying the text.

If you are blogging about dress history here, especially if you are a small and obscure blog like yours truly, check "Attire's Mind" for stolen content.

It is particularly aggravating since he is clearly going the James Somerton route with this: stealing the work of passionate but little-known creatives, and making an inferior version that incidentally removes citations.

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[image ID: Facebook post by Songbird Schwarz

I often think about how gross it is the way we’ve normalized kids hating school. Like to the point of fear and avoidance. “Lol he’s pretending to be sick to stay home.” “She was so happy it was a snow day she jumped for joy.” “Hahaha he’s hiding under the bed to avoid going.”

It’s... It’s not funny. It’s actually really gross the way we make kids sit a desk all day to be force fed dry as hell information and make them ask if they can use the bathroom, for 7-8 hours a day. 5 days a week and then go home with oppressively unfair amounts of homework.

And then we laugh - we LAUGH - at how much they hate it. It’s become a cultural touchstone. To shake our heads and chuckle while kids try to scheme ways to get out of it.

That’s… That’s bad.

And then we ask adults to do the same with work.

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i think one of my favourite things about tumblr will always be the universal solidarity of Committing To The Bit. like yes that is a great colour for a children's hospital! of course i'm going to make my poll choice to add more vanilla extract to the cake! you have a great fanart of my favourite media down in the cellar, and i should go down first? well don't mind if i do!

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I know this is just a silly bad quality random screencap of a screencap that I found on facebook lol, BUT it's a succinct enough image to easily describe the concept in a quick/accessible way hopefully :

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(and of course, feel free to elaborate in tags, etc.! (especially elaborating about other senses as well.. can you "hear" in your mind just as well as you can "see"? taste? etc.) It's an interesting topic to me, as someone who's like a 4.5 at MOST lol. I'm curious what option will be the most common :0c )

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CDA 230 bans Facebook from blocking interoperable tools

I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TONIGHT (May 2) in WINNIPEG, then TOMORROW (May 3) in CALGARY, then SATURDAY (May 4) in VANCOUVER, then onto Tartu, Estonia, and beyond!

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is the most widely misunderstood technology law in the world, which is wild, given that it's only 26 words long!

https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-section-230-communications-decency-act/

CDA 230 isn't a gift to big tech. It's literally the only reason that tech companies don't censor on anything we write that might offend some litigious creep. Without CDA 230, there'd be no #MeToo. Hell, without CDA 230, just hosting a private message board where two friends get into serious beef could expose to you an avalanche of legal liability.

CDA 230 is the only part of a much broader, wildly unconstitutional law that survived a 1996 Supreme Court challenge. We don't spend a lot of time talking about all those other parts of the CDA, but there's actually some really cool stuff left in the bill that no one's really paid attention to:

https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/supreme-court-decision-striking-down-cda

One of those little-regarded sections of CDA 230 is part (c)(2)(b), which broadly immunizes anyone who makes a tool that helps internet users block content they don't want to see.

Enter the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and their client, Ethan Zuckerman, an internet pioneer turned academic at U Mass Amherst. Knight has filed a lawsuit on Zuckerman's behalf, seeking assurance that Zuckerman (and others) can use browser automation tools to block, unfollow, and otherwise modify the feeds Facebook delivers to its users:

https://knightcolumbia.org/documents/gu63ujqj8o

If Zuckerman is successful, he will set a precedent that allows toolsmiths to provide internet users with a wide variety of automation tools that customize the information they see online. That's something that Facebook bitterly opposes.

Facebook has a long history of attacking startups and individual developers who release tools that let users customize their feed. They shut down Friendly Browser, a third-party Facebook client that blocked trackers and customized your feed:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/once-again-facebook-using-privacy-sword-kill-independent-innovation

Then in in 2021, Facebook's lawyers terrorized a software developer named Louis Barclay in retaliation for a tool called "Unfollow Everything," that autopiloted your browser to click through all the laborious steps needed to unfollow all the accounts you were subscribed to, and permanently banned Unfollow Everywhere's developer, Louis Barclay:

https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-everything-cease-desist.html

Now, Zuckerman is developing "Unfollow Everything 2.0," an even richer version of Barclay's tool.

This rich record of legal bullying gives Zuckerman and his lawyers at Knight something important: "standing" – the right to bring a case. They argue that a browser automation tool that helps you control your feeds is covered by CDA(c)(2)(b), and that Facebook can't legally threaten the developer of such a tool with liability for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or the other legal weapons it wields against this kind of "adversarial interoperability."

Writing for Wired, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University speaks to a variety of experts – including my EFF colleague Sophia Cope – who broadly endorse the very clever legal tactic Zuckerman and Knight are bringing to the court.

I'm very excited about this myself. "Adversarial interop" – modding a product or service without permission from its maker – is hugely important to disenshittifying the internet and forestalling future attempts to reenshittify it. From third-party ink cartridges to compatible replacement parts for mobile devices to alternative clients and firmware to ad- and tracker-blockers, adversarial interop is how internet users defend themselves against unilateral changes to services and products they rely on:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability

Now, all that said, a court victory here won't necessarily mean that Facebook can't block interoperability tools. Facebook still has the unilateral right to terminate its users' accounts. They could kick off Zuckerman. They could kick off his lawyers from the Knight Institute. They could permanently ban any user who uses Unfollow Everything 2.0.

Obviously, that kind of nuclear option could prove very unpopular for a company that is the very definition of "too big to care." But Unfollow Everything 2.0 and the lawsuit don't exist in a vacuum. The fight against Big Tech has a lot of tactical diversity: EU regulations, antitrust investigations, state laws, tinkerers and toolsmiths like Zuckerman, and impact litigation lawyers coming up with cool legal theories.

Together, they represent a multi-front war on the very idea that four billion people should have their digital lives controlled by an unaccountable billionaire man-child whose major technological achievement was making a website where he and his creepy friends could nonconsensually rate the fuckability of their fellow Harvard undergrads.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/02/kaiju-v-kaiju/#cda-230-c-2-b

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Minette Lontsie (modified): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Facebook_Headquarters.jpg

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Ecommerce in 2023: What do the experts predict?

Ecommerce in 2023: What do the experts predict?

Ecommerce – The last year has been turbulent in ecommerce, following on from the surge in online shopping during 2020 and 2021. However, online sales are still growing steadily in the longer term (hitting 30% of total retail again in the UK in November 2022 according to ONS data), and the channel will be key for many retailers seeking to be as flexible as possible as inflation impacts on consumer…

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Pov you just got booped

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Me rn…

Oh, look! More Relatable Autistic Content!

Autism

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Loving this picture, bc the combination of the glasses and the hair is giving this:

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Listen, this is a pretty hopeless vent below. i am rational and know things are going to keep working and laws are getting drafted, but a vent is a vent.

And I felt pretty hopeless.

Don't you feel terrified that even to your best abilities, AI can generate something arguably better, economically viable? Doesn't it make shivers down to your bones knowing your 20 or so years of efforts are now worth pennies, and the future you planned os now only the next 5 years until it's fully trained?

Doesn't it scare you that people who pay to use it are paying to have the privilege to train it and soon enough they too will be replaced? That artistry is one of the most ancient works, a millenary job, the expression of human existence, and it's now commodified with the blood and sweat of every artist that existed before? That those artists, the dead and alive ones, never ever and never would agree with their work being used like this? And that there's people who rejoice on the misery they feel?

That the joy of seeing a new art is dead because you have to make sure you're supporting a real person? That the smile is replaced with a double take, a zoom in on the features?

The complete destruction of the search engines that both show and spit out nonsense, for the untrained eye to be unable to know the reality they love in, as well of the past they'll never get to fully understand, because a machine who knows nothing generated some Greek art? Indigenous? Fake animals? Fake political mishaps?

Doesn't it make you cry that you'll never have money to throw at the problem because your enemy has more money alone than all of the 99% living humans on this earth at this moment? That they're happy never to ever hire an artist again? A voice actor? A designer?

That my dream was once to sell my art on DeviantArt and recently they congratulated the biggest seller they had, who's now an AI generator that makes ladies with big boobs.

That other people who don't know my grief tell me to "adapt" and "use it too" so I won't be forgotten?

To make me wonder how people once made the most beautiful lace by hand and now it's worth less than what I breathe and that's now my future?

That once art brought me joy and now it makes me wonder for how long can I keep doing it?