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> On Facebook, there is 100% difference between the top 20 headline phrases in 2017 vs 2019/20... We can attribute this stark change to a few things; algorithmi
by an_opabinia 6y ago
> On Facebook, there is 100% difference between the top 20 headline phrases in 2017 vs 2019/20... We can attribute this stark change to a few things; algorithmic maturity, audience preference and the publisher landscape.
Or that means you're measuring the completely wrong things about headline authoring, because the data have no stationarity at all.
They allude to this, but it would appear that the only thing that matters is Facebook's editorial, laundered through an algorithm. So maybe a more valuable article would be hacking into Facebook and just finding out what it is they idiosyncratically value in a headline.
- Wistar 6y ago[Adds "stationarity" to vocabulary]
- airstrike 6y agoThat's what you have to do if you want to have good vocabularity
- marshmallow_12 6y agoi occasionarily create new words basing it on existing constructs.
- wunderflix 6y agoHow creativeneous!
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- Wistar 6y agoIndeed. The least one I added from HN comments was "Tsundoku."
- Groxx 6y agoThat is a marvelous word, thank you
- doggodaddo78 6y agoA tsunami of book hoardings piling-up that can play sudoku.
- doggodaddo78 6y agoHow to Talk About Books You Haven't Read (2009) by Pierre Bayard Unfortunately, tsundokuists won't read it. Meta.
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- doggodaddo78 6y agoStationary + it. PS: Earth - art = Eh.
- joebob42 6y agoOr, maybe even better, they need to keep coming up with new nonsense to put in headlines. After a year or two people know "one weird trick" articles are in fact spam, so it becomes necessary to produce new phrases to put in headlines to entice / trick unwary readers.
- Safety1stClyde 6y agoFacebook hates him! Here's how a hacker news commenter used one weird old trick to produce new phrases to put in headlines!
- doggodaddo78 6y agoGPT-3 was banished for life from Facebook for raping a sweet, 7-year-old girl! Find out how it happened in this outrage-clickbait article to sell you some quack wellness supplements via a chumbox. 35,827 sold so far! Click now because supplies are almost gone!
- mushufasa 6y agoI would guess the instructional surge is tied to advertising -- easier to convert clicks on ad instructions when people are conditioned to click on instructionals