New Insight: People like what you have to say
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One-liner
- How many people you followed on Twitter followed you back.
Describe what this insight is in a single sentence. This is the description that appears in ThinkUp's insights list, so phrase it like the others are. Current insights single sentences are:
- Post activity spikes for the past 7, 30, and 365 days.
- How often you referred to yourself ("I", "me", "myself", "my") in the past week.
- How many more users a message has reached due to your reshare or retweet.
Full explainer
How does it make the user feel? What is the goal of this insight?
- It makes them feel liked & appreciated. Tells them they're worth a follow-back, and people like what they tweet.
Audience for the insight
Which networks, if any, are excluded from this insight?
- Facebook
Does this insight serve users with less or more activity? - More, but depends on the following activity more than the post activity
First-run: does this insight show up on a user's first crawl?
- Don't think it would, no.
How often this insight runs
- Always (triggered by a data event, check the data and update insight on every crawl)
- Daily (check the data once a day, don't regenerate every crawl)
- [√ ] Weekly on a fixed day (specify day of week per network to space these out)
- Monthly on a fixed day with bonus magic day within first 2 weeks of use (specify day of month per network to space these out)
- Annual on a fixed date (specify day of year)
- Annual every 365 days from first appearance
Headline
People like what you have to say!
Include multiple variations, use third person and variables for localized network terminology.
For example:
- %username has passed %total %followers!
- More than %total people are %following %username
Body
3 of the people you followed this week followed you back.
or:
You got 5 new followers since last week!
or:
2 new people followed you–they must respect what you have to say!
Include multiple variations whenever possible.
For example:
- That's more than the population of Belize.
- That's more people than can fit in Yankee Stadium.
Tout
- Keep track of your follow-backs.
Explain how ThinkUp can help potential users, basing copy on the insight.
For example:
- Want a handy list of the links you've favorited? We can help!
- Get a look back at what you were doing on this day in years past.
Criteria and logic
Describe the rules for when this insight runs.
- What data does this insight need? Last week's posts? Last month's? Just the user's posts?
- Does the insight count replies as well as non-replies?
- Are there baseline comparisons? What is the logic around the comparison?
- Are there special copy cases? (for example, if the baseline comparison matches)
- Is there a minimum threshold for any bit of data before the insight should get generated?
Emphasis
- High
- Medium
- Low
Included elements
- Headline
- Text
- Header image (image off to the left in side-by-side style insights)
- Hero image (giant image on top)
- List of user(s)
- List of post(s)
- List of link(s)
- Action button (please specify button label and URL button should link to)
- Line chart
- Bar chart
- Other viz
- Other graphic treatment
Action button
Specify the following action button attributes:
- 'label' => 'Edit Facebook Profile',
- 'url' => 'https://www.facebook.com/me?sk=info&edit=eduwork&ref=update_info_button',
Hero image
If your insight includes a hero image, we encourage you to use public domain or CC-licensed images. Hero images should be at least 540px wide and be landscape. (They can be portrait, but then they're quite tall.)
Specify the following hero image attributes:
- 'url' => 'https://www.thinkup.com/assets/images/insights/2014-03/oscars2014.jpg',
- 'alt_text' => 'Ellen DeGeneres posted the most popular tweet of all time',
- 'credit' => 'Photo: @TheEllenShow',
- 'img_link' => 'https://twitter.com/TheEllenShow/status/440322224407314432'