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> Of course, the post could have risen naturally to be more visible to a given audience through reshares. If the post was a link to a news piece or something th

by jonknee 13y ago

> Of course, the post could have risen naturally to be more visible to a given audience through reshares. If the post was a link to a news piece or something that could interest the audience that could have happened naturally. Would it be possible to show the original post? (or the link to it if any?) Considering FB even charges you to get your post to your own fans, it seems odd that when you're paying for it they would choose exactly the people you said not to show it to. They very tightly control who sees what, it was not an accident that Brazil was shown the content.

jakub_g 13y ago
Likely the reason was what is described in this video (topped HN some two weeks ago): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag TL;DW: there are tons of India/Bangladesh/Brazil-based spammers (those "buy 1000 likes on FB for $1" etc) who allegedly in order to prevent being caught by fraud detection algorithms, are liking whole array of random pages. Edit: didn't see this was posted already later on this thread.
- raverbashing 13y ago
  There's even the likes of these: www.fblikejacker.in (I just found about it)
Silhouette 13y ago
You're attributing to malice that which is sufficiently explained by incompetence. Whenever we place Facebook ads at one of my companies, we always have a second person check the details before confirming. On numerous occasions we have confirmed the order, and then immediately seen different details showing up on subsequent pages compared to what both people on our side saw or selected on the order page, sometimes dramatically different. This has happened so often that some of the people involved now advocate taking a screenshot as evidence before confirming anything. We're talking about an embarrassingly bug-ridden system here, particularly so given that it's the point where the authorisation to do things that cost real money takes place. The kinds of anecdotes seen in this discussion really aren't all that surprising if you've had much experience working with Facebook ads, I'm sorry to say.

by jonknee 13y ago

jakub_g 13y ago

Likely the reason was what is described in this video (topped HN some two weeks ago): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag TL;DW: there are tons of India/Bangladesh/Brazil-based spammers (those "buy 1000 likes on FB for $1" etc) who allegedly in order to prevent being caught by fraud detection algorithms, are liking whole array of random pages. Edit: didn't see this was posted already later on this thread.

raverbashing 13y ago
There's even the likes of these: www.fblikejacker.in (I just found about it)

Silhouette 13y ago

You're attributing to malice that which is sufficiently explained by incompetence. Whenever we place Facebook ads at one of my companies, we always have a second person check the details before confirming. On numerous occasions we have confirmed the order, and then immediately seen different details showing up on subsequent pages compared to what both people on our side saw or selected on the order page, sometimes dramatically different. This has happened so often that some of the people involved now advocate taking a screenshot as evidence before confirming anything. We're talking about an embarrassingly bug-ridden system here, particularly so given that it's the point where the authorisation to do things that cost real money takes place. The kinds of anecdotes seen in this discussion really aren't all that surprising if you've had much experience working with Facebook ads, I'm sorry to say.