Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Facebook updates its News Feed



Digest: Facebook will begin adding related links with news stories, to help users find more content. Also, older stories generating newer comments will bump back up near the top of News Feeds. 




Facebook is boosting its efforts to put more news in its News Feed. That is, real news from the news media, rather than status updates from friends.

Statement from Varun Kacholia, Facebook's engineering manager, and software engineer Minwen Ji: “Starting soon, we'll be doing a better job of distinguishing between a high quality article on a website versus a meme photo hosted somewhere other than Facebook when people click on those stories on mobile.”


Facebook will tweak the way its displays articles in user News Feeds: "This means that high quality articles you or others read may show up a bit more prominently in your News Feed, and meme photos may show up a bit less prominently," the engineers wrote on blog post



 

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