Monitoring Facebook ‘like’ for 150,000 websites

Posted: November 14, 2011 | Author: 99like | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

I realized that I actually never stated exactly what 99like.com does, or at least not in details.
So let's do it here:

99like monitors the number of Facebook 'like' everyday for 150,000 websites.
Additionally we show charts of these 'like' count across time. And we display those for given search terms.

Additional details:
- the 150,000 websites are the top 100,000 websites according to Alexa, plus about

50,000 websites taken from the CrunchBase database. Not all URLs worked because of some

issues either with our script, or with the database information.

- we count the Facebook likes using the total number: Shared + Like + Comment
- we get these counts directly from Facebook using their API

For example, you can check manually the counters using the following URL:

https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=SELECT%20share_count,%20like_count,%20comment_count,%20total_count%20FROM%20link_stat%20WHERE%20url=%22http://www.99like.com%22&access_token=

which responds:

<fql_query_response xmlns="http://api.facebook.com/1.0/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" list="true">

<link_stat>

<share_count>0</share_count>

<like_count>6</like_count>

<comment_count>0</comment_count>

<total_count>6</total_count>

</link_stat>

</fql_query_response>

One could argue that the comment count is not as valuable as the 'Share' and 'Like' count. Our view is that a comment increases awareness, and generally shows that the website has some "buzz".

For any question, let me know.

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