Friday, September 19, 2014

Facebook changes algorithm that ‘digs’ publications – Reuters

TODAY at 12:12 updated at 13:19

Facebook unveiled two new News Feed changes in the social network that should affect how the publications appear to users. The main novelty is that now will be taken into consideration factors such as the time to determine the relevance of a post.
 
 

This means that the feed will now take into consideration the issues that are a tendency to display publications related to this faster, avoiding also show the ‘posts yesterday »to registered.

For example, Facebook will endeavor to show some game publications related to what is happening at the moment, or comments on a series that is going on TV at the time it is transmitted. Today, the way the News Feed works, some comments on these moments eventually appear hours after the event is finished.

Thus, when a friend or page publish something related to something that is happen at that moment, this post is more likely to appear in your feed.

Another change will also take into consideration the likes and shares in deciding whether a publication has lost relevance after some time. Besides taking into account the commitment to the “event”, the Facebook notice how long the publication continues to receive likes to calculate whether it is still useful.

With the news, Facebook should improve the algorithm decide whether it is worth ‘digging’ a publication to put it on top of your feed. The aim is that the timeless content that has nothing to do with momentous events, re-emerge more frequently, while comments on what has to do with what happens on a small time window remain buried.

According to Facebook, these changes will begin to be implemented gradually. The social network also says it does not expect the scope of the publications of the pages to be affected by the new algorithm

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