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On the Facebook app, Feed is the first screen to appear, partially leading most users to think of the feed as Facebook itself. [32] The Facebook Feed operates as a revolving door of articles, pages the user has liked, status updates, app activity, likes from other users photos and videos. [35] This operates an arena of social discussion.
The news feed is the primary system through which users are exposed to content posted on the network. Using a secret method (initially known as EdgeRank), Facebook selects a handful of updates to actually show users every time they visit their feed, out of an average of 1500 updates they can potentially receive.
On February 23, 2010, Facebook was granted a patent [62] on certain aspects of its News Feed. The patent covers News Feeds in which links are provided so that one user can participate in the activity of another user. [63] The sorting and display of stories in a user's News Feed is governed by the EdgeRank algorithm. [64]
Facebook is making some big changes to its flagship feature in the wake of criticism about how its news feed can be manipulated.
Facebook has redesigned its highly addictive News Feed to be less overwhelming and have a greater emphasis on photos and videos, which make up about 50% of the site's content. Overall, users will ...
Facebook has internally prototyped a tabbed version of the News Feed for mobile that includes the standard Most Relevant feed, the existing Most Recent feed of reverse chronological posts that was ...
Product (news feed) Facebook launches News Feed. [320] The original news feed is an algorithmically generated and constantly refreshing summary of updates about the activities of one's friends. The concept was relatively new at the time, with Twitter having launched only a few months in advance. 2006: September: Acquisition talks
Facebook announced the first major changes to its News Feed feature in years, drastically altering the look and functionality of the News Feed. Once the brand spankin' new News Feed