Visualization of the reach of a post by a member of an on-line social networking system

摘要

A system for visualizing the reach of a post by a member of an on-line social networking system may be designed to increase awareness of the members, as to which degree their posted updates are noticed and reacted to by other members. When a member creates a post, either through the on-line social networking website itself or through an application programming interface (API) that allows to include a share user interface (UI) control on a third web party site, the system monitors events associated with the post, collects statistics with respect to the monitored events and uses this data to generate a visualization of the reach of that post. Example visualization provides the creator of the a sense of how many other members interacted with the post.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
accessing events data associated with a post by a focus member of an on-line social networking system, the events data associated with one or more responses with respect to the post, the events data including numbers of counts for the one or more responses to the post, the post created by the focus member; generating, using at least one processor, a visualization of the events data, the visualization of the events data including respective graphical representations of the one or more responses, the respective graphical representations of the one or more responses indicating:
the numbers of counts of responses of a particular type of response to the post,connection distances of respective members of the on-line social network associated with the one or more responses, a connection distance from the connection distances indicating a degree of association between a member of the on-line social networking system and the focus member, andone or more groups based on the connection distances of the respective members of the on-line social network associated with the one or more responses; and causing displaying of the visualization of the events data on a customized news feed page of the focus member by communicating the visualization of the events data to a client system.