Getting “People talking about this” metric (PTAT)

Question

I'm using the facebook api to pull some metrics, I want to get the "talking about this" metric, I reviewd the "Stories and People talking about this" from the facebook api and I'm pulling the "page_storytellers" metric, but I see that the number from this metric does not match with the "talking about this" metric from the facebook original page.

My question here is

How does the facebook api calculate this value for (page_storytellers metric)? The "page_storytellers" metric is the correct one to get the "talking about this metric"?

Thanks for your help

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/insights/

Answer 1

In the Facebook Graph API Explorer there is a description for talking_about_count field:

The number of people that are talking about this page (last seven days). No access token or user access_token. number

So talking_about_count field is equal to page_storytellers insight metric with week period.

Answer 2

you just need to target the graph api node for the page

https://graph.facebook.com/nike/

last metric (talking_about_count) is talking about this. pull the number from the JSON object.

change "nike" with the page id you want to collect data from.