100M Posts Analyzed: What You Need to Write the Best Headlines

Re:100M Posts Analyzed: What You Need to Write the Best Head... by an_opabinia on Thursday April 01, 2021 @02:07PM (#26664025)

> 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.

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Re:100M Posts Analyzed: What You Need to Write the Best Head... by joebob42 on Thursday April 01, 2021 @03:15PM (#26664834)

Or, 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.

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Re:100M Posts Analyzed: What You Need to Write the Best Head... by Safety1stClyde on Thursday April 01, 2021 @07:02PM (#26667357)

Facebook hates him! Here's how a hacker news commenter used one weird old trick to produce new phrases to put in headlines!

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Re:100M Posts Analyzed: What You Need to Write the Best Head... by doggodaddo78 on Friday April 02, 2021 @02:22AM (#26669387)

GPT-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!

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Re:100M Posts Analyzed: What You Need to Write the Best Head... by Wistar on Thursday April 01, 2021 @03:12PM (#26664797)

[Adds "stationarity" to vocabulary]

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Re:100M Posts Analyzed: What You Need to Write the Best Head... by airstrike on Thursday April 01, 2021 @03:24PM (#26664920)

That's what you have to do if you want to have good vocabularity

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Re:100M Posts Analyzed: What You Need to Write the Best Head... by Wistar on Thursday April 01, 2021 @05:03PM (#26665988)

Indeed. The least one I added from HN comments was "Tsundoku."

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Re:100M Posts Analyzed: What You Need to Write the Best Head... by doggodaddo78 on Friday April 02, 2021 @02:27AM (#26669405)

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read (2009) by Pierre Bayard

Unfortunately, tsundokuists won't read it. Meta.

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Re:100M Posts Analyzed: What You Need to Write the Best Head... by doggodaddo78 on Friday April 02, 2021 @02:25AM (#26669399)

A tsunami of book hoardings piling-up that can play sudoku.

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Re:100M Posts Analyzed: What You Need to Write the Best Head... by Groxx on Thursday April 01, 2021 @10:45PM (#26668596)

That is a marvelous word, thank you

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Re:100M Posts Analyzed: What You Need to Write the Best Head... by marshmallow_12 on Thursday April 01, 2021 @04:03PM (#26665345)

i occasionarily create new words basing it on existing constructs.

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Re:100M Posts Analyzed: What You Need to Write the Best Head... by wunderflix on Thursday April 01, 2021 @06:16PM (#26666897)

How creativeneous!

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Re:100M Posts Analyzed: What You Need to Write the Best Head... by doggodaddo78 on Friday April 02, 2021 @02:24AM (#26669394)

Stationary + it.

PS: Earth - art = Eh.

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Re:100M Posts Analyzed: What You Need to Write the Best Head... by mushufasa on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @01:17AM (#26708156)

I would guess the instructional surge is tied to advertising -- easier to convert clicks on ad instructions when people are conditioned to click on instructionals

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