Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Facebook tilts the News Feed algorithm back to your friends

Facebook has announced it's twisting the knobs that control what content you see in your News Feed to favor more content from your close friends. In a post titled "News Feed FYI: Balancing Content from Friends and Pages," Facebook said it's making three changes. The first is that it won't let people reach the "end" of a News Feed as easily, because it will be willing to show more content from the same publisher than it was before. Previously, you wouldn't be likely to get two posts from the same Page. But the other two changes are more ominous for publishers, but potentially great for users who actually want to see content from their friends: "content posted by the friends you care about" will be "higher up in the News Feed." Also, if a...

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