Getting Your ClickaSnap Pictures Seen

Finding clusters of people outside the Platform to view the Photos

Robert Carlson
4 min readJul 23, 2023

The concept of The Small World limits the number of people who see what you upload. Your efforts need to involve breaking out of the confines.

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As a short description of the nature of the Small World it means no matter how large a total population is, only a compact few people will ever see your material and engage with it. Even though there are over 1 million ClickaSnap subscriber, only about 1,250 of them have ever visited my profile and seen even one of my photos. Even so, 976 have visited my profile only once. This means about 275 subscribers have visited two or more times with the higher numbers fewer than 5 times.

Everyone who discovers a photo of mine did so for a few different reasons. But to do it they had to chance upon it by seeing it on the Explore page, seeing it as a Related image to one from someone else, or someone they already follow shared it into their Feed.

The first two methods are the result of the server algorithms choosing what is presented. The Related suggestions though driven algorithmically are also helped by my tags, file name and description. The point I am making is only a very few people become familiar with anything one uploads. And that only happens through…

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Robert Carlson
Robert Carlson

Written by Robert Carlson

Robert Carlson is a writer & photographer who has been active since the mid-1960s. His writing spans many genre & can be found in venues across the Internets.

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