Businesses use Page audience data to understand what their followers care about. To make audience data even more meaningful for businesses, we’re updating the way Page likes are counted by removing memorialized and voluntarily deactivated accounts from Pages’ like counts. This change ensures that data on Facebook is consistent and up-to-date.
Removing inactive Facebook accounts
There are two primary benefits to removing voluntarily deactivated and memorialized Facebook accounts from Pages’ like counts:
Business results: Removing inactive Facebook accounts from Page audience data gives businesses up-to-date insights on the people who actively follow their Page and makes it easier for businesses to find people like their followers through tools like lookalike audiences.
Consistency: We already filter out likes and comments generated by deactivated or memorialized accounts from individual Page posts, so this update keeps data consistent.
What to expect
Over the coming weeks, Page admins should expect to see a small dip in their number of Page likes as a result of this update. It’s important to remember, though, that these removed likes represent people who were already inactive on Facebook.
Going forward, any accounts that are voluntarily deactivated or memorialized will be removed from a Page’s like count. If a deactivated account is reactivated, the account will be re-added to a Page’s like count.
Everyone benefits from meaningful information on Facebook. It’s our hope that this update makes Pages even more valuable for businesses.
This article has been republished from Facebook. You can find the original here.
I welcome this change because consistency and accuracy are so important when measuring the success of your marketing campaigns through social media like facebook.
Thanks a heap for bringing it to our attention guys as I did notice a change that I couldn’t explain until now.
Karen of Workplace Safety Warehouse
Stay safe everyone.