Covering X (Twitter) Posts public_metrics

[christophediprima]

Hi there I am using Activity Streams 2.0 to describe X Posts and was wondering what I could use to best support they public_metrics that looks like following:

{
  "retweet_count": 665,
  "reply_count": 178,
  "like_count": 4961,
  "quote_count": 40,
  "bookmark_count": 521,
  "impression_count": 296339
},

Here is a sample of what I do:

{
  "@type": "as:Article",
  "@id": IRI,
  "as:author": author_IRI,
  "as:content": "content here",
  "as:likes": likes_collection_IRI,
  "as:replies": replies_collection_IRI,
  "as:shares": retweets_collection_IRI,
  ...
}

I could not find any property for quote_count, bookmark_count and impression_count.

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[evanp]

Good question! I don't think we have equivalents there, unless you count quotes as shares, and would combine them into a single collection. Regardless, if you want to represent "bookmark" and "impression", I'd suggest making an extension for it. Good info on how to do it in the Activity Streams Primer.

[trwnh]

http://schema.org/interactionStatistic could be used for this. Mastodon recently started publishing this information using a <script type="application/ld+json"> tag embedded in HTML:

<script type="application/ld+json">
    {
        "@context": "https://schema.org",
        "@type": "SocialMediaPosting",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/111785114987269286",
        "datePublished": "2024-01-19T23:04:49Z",
        "dateModified": null,
        "author": {
            "@type": "Person",
            "name": "infinite love ⴳ",
            "alternateName": "trwnh@mastodon.social",
            "identifier": "trwnh@mastodon.social",
            "url": "https://mastodon.social/@trwnh",
            "interactionStatistic": [{
                "@type": "InteractionCounter",
                "interactionType": "https://schema.org/FollowAction",
                "userInteractionCount": 3206
            }]
        },
        "text": "\u003cp\u003eNow, I want to specifically answer: why sponsor me?\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI\u0026#39;m involved in a lot of fediverse stuff under the hood and at a protocol discussion level. I\u0026#39;d love to remain involved. Particularly, I\u0026#39;d like to continue contributing to the information side of fedi -- protocol discussions, proposal writing, and documentation efforts. Stuff that will hopefully drive fedi forward.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e$500/month would give me a lot more time. $1000/month would be enough to live off of. But anything helps! You\u0026#39;d save me worrying.\u003c/p\u003e",
        "interactionStatistic": [{
            "@type": "InteractionCounter",
            "interactionType": "https://schema.org/LikeAction",
            "userInteractionCount": 3
        }, {
            "@type": "InteractionCounter",
            "interactionType": "https://schema.org/ShareAction",
            "userInteractionCount": 3
        }, {
            "@type": "InteractionCounter",
            "interactionType": "https://schema.org/ReplyAction",
            "userInteractionCount": 2
        }]
    }
</script>

you are maybe looking for these:

• http://schema.org/BookmarkAction
• http://schema.org/ViewAction
• NOT http://schema.org/QuoteAction -- that one is for estimating prices ("schedule a consultation about our services for a free quote")
  • i think twitter/x generally merges in "quote count" with "retweet count" at the UI layer, so http://schema.org/ShareAction probably works to communicate the same information as the UI.

also worth noting: in activitypub, we can do something like this for the defined interaction collections:

{
  "replies": {
    "totalItems": 2,
  },
  "likes": {
    "totalItems": 3
  },
  "shares": {
    "totalItems": 3
  }
}

giving each of those collections an id lets you refer to them later.