Facebook Open Sources Insights Script For Developers | Linux Today

Facebook Open Sources Insights Script For Developers

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 9, 2010

“The application, which runs on Google AppEngine, uses the
Facebook Graph API to pull data from Facebook. The level of insight
is pretty impressive. For example, Facebook makes a distinction
between the number of Page stream views versus unique views (which
I would assume is the number of users that viewed your stream
story). While it doesn’t appear as though the new Insights tools
are rolled out to all users yet, developers can immediately start
leveraging the Insights product for their own internal use, or to
build third-party analytics services.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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