Viral Loop is a data visualization tool which shows the share path of a Facebook post.
It has 3 awesome features,
The key point is the more you know about your fans, the better you can provide shareable Facebook content. When you post something public on Facebook Page, you can only know how many fans like, comment, or share on their posts. But, the statistics can't help you to exactly find out the process of dissemination.
Viral Loop illustrates the share path of a post. For example, a Facebook Page called Red Candle Games published a post on their wall. According to the Figure 1, the biggest green root node in the center of the tree diagram indicates this post and there are totally 46 fans sharing this post. The orange nodes extending from the root node indicates the first layer of public sharing. In other words, there are 10 fans shere the original post publicly.
| Figure 1: First layer of the post |
Your valuable fans help you to promote posts and popularize your Facebook Page. On the Figure 2, it is important to notice that a influential fan as a green node in the first layer share this post and there are 11 fan reshares. You can find out 4 fans in the second layer publicly reshare this post from the influential fan. It give you a feedback help you to publish more shareable content next time.
| Figure 2: All layers of the post |