Facebook manupulated, shows users how many people viewed their posts.

Facebook doesn't have plans to add the feature officially but because of the bug people were able to see how popular they are.

 

A Facebook bug has shown some users how popular they are, by showing how many people had viewed the post. 

The feature shows up next to the 'Like' button, where you see it if you own a Page for a company, brand or personality. 

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However, this is not supposed to be used for personal profiles, as Facebook has no plans to show people who use Facebook purely for their personal social media interaction how many people have viewed their posts.

This did not please the general public, who found that their posts are unpopular:  

Other social networks including Twitter, Vine and YouTube already show view counts, and Twitter even has a detailed analytics feature that shows what people did after viewing your post. 

It shows whether the person who viewed it clicked on any links, or on your profile, or on any pictures embedded in the tweet. 

Facebook prefers not to do this, and instead only shows likes and comments.

Perhaps it is because of the self-esteem issues faced by those whose posts no one views - if only 12 people are looking at each status you post, you might stop posting them.
On the other side of the coin, if a post has hundreds of views but no likes or comments, this could also upset people. 

Facebook has now fixed the bug, and it does not look like this issue will be coming back any time soon.


Lets watch the space.

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