By August, social networking sites will begin to apply new ways to display numbers and statistics on the number of audiences interacting with the content they publish, such as fans and viewers who are republishing or sharing the same content and so on. Content, instead showing approximate or non-instantaneous numbers, in order to reduce the occurrence of erroneous impulses by some audiences, to increase the popularity of some publications or parts of the content, just because it develops in front of them instantaneously, which does not reflect the importance and The value of these publications is accurate and effective.

New orientation

YouTube leads this trend, followed by Twitter, Instagram and Reddit, while Facebook has not announced its position on this new trend. A YouTube product team has posted a blog via the blog The official support platform of support.google.com/ youtube, wrote about this new trend, stating that «all creators and content publishers via (YouTube) who have more than 1000 subscribers or fans, is currently displaying the number (YouTube), which works on desktop devices and mobile smart phones, and also appear on third-party sites that provide analysis of views and Subscriptions and statistics for the public, in some cases the number of subscribers is reduced to 133K, and elsewhere the number 133.017 appears.

General Consistency

"In order to create a consistent level of consistency in the display of numbers and statistics wherever the numbers are presented publicly, starting in August, the numbers and analysis of subscribers will be presented in a short-form time format on all YouTube applications, And the creators of content and channels will be able to see the full actual numbers of their channels. And their participation through the service (u Jupp Studio) ».

Illustrations

The YouTube team explained the new method by saying that YouTube channels with fewer than 1,000 subscribers will be shown in full and concise, and once the channel reaches 1,000 subscribers, the new method will be applied. The following examples illustrate:

* If the channel has 4222 subscribers, the number of subscribers will be 4.2K, until the channel reaches 4300 subscribers.

* If the channel has 133,017 subscribers, the number of subscribers will be 133K so that the channel reaches 134,000 subscribers.

* If the channel has 51389232 subscribers, the number will be shown to be 51 million subscribers, until the channel reaches 52 million subscribers.

"We know that the number of subscribers is very important for creators, their fans and their followers alike, so we wanted to give each person advance information about what will happen a few months before the new method is actually implemented," he said.

Effect in the stars

Analysts at Theverge.com said YouTube's new way of displaying statistics would not be affected by the general public of channel owners, followers and other users, but it would have a profound impact on YouTube stars, creators and artists who rely on YouTube. In their work on simple differences between each other, in terms of the number of views and subscriptions, to prove the identity of the winner or loser in some cases, such as dramas and advertisements and others.

This is based on accurate, accurate, and instantaneous statistics. This also affects the site of network analytics and statistics, including Social Baker, Social Blade, and others. "Changes in YouTube will affect the presentation of the data provided by the company to its customers, so they are communicating with YouTube to reach consensus on this matter," Jason Orgo, CEO of Social Blade, said in a statement.

Application of Integral

Officials at the famous Image Exchange application said they are currently considering amendments that would reduce the number of images displayed on the application in real time to reduce pressure on servers.

"This will change the behavior of users and followers of the site so that the focus is on the content being shared, not the number of times the content has been liked," said a spokesman for The Verg.

«Twitter»

Twitter is moving in the same direction in the second half of this year, probably after August, when the site unveiled a trial version of Twitter, running on mobile phones, used by the company when testing features Or new properties.

The trial included a significant change in the design of Twitter, with the removal of statistics from posts such as admiration, response, Twitter, and other public responses, and not being automatically displayed, but shown after user pressure.

The new design hides some responses under the "Show More" key. "This action is taken with some responses and posts that contain things that may be offensive or undesirable," a Twitter spokeswoman said. "This decision will reduce the reward people get when they attack each other." She pointed out that the management of Twitter will continue to test the new system, and gathered comments about it from different parties, before it was issued worldwide. In the same context, the social networking site Redet is testing a new system that displays statistics for followers and the public in the past 24 hours only, with the user's visibility hidden through RES and mobile users.

Edit «Instagram»

The details of the amendment, which is to be implemented at INGEST, came a few days after a recommendation by the British Information Commissioner's Office that social platforms such as Instagram and Snape Chat provide a function that allows for the suspension of features such as " Encourages users to continue publishing, to protect the privacy of younger users.

• YouTube eliminates the instantaneous display of actual views and displays approximate numbers.