FACE BOOK CHANGED ITS TRENDING ALGORITHM
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Face
book is the largest news aggregator on the planet right now.
This means more people use Face book to read about news, than any other news platform.
The concept of trending is a popular way to keep track on news on both Twitter, as well as Face book.
Also, Face book uses a very clean and sophisticated way of placement of the foresaid news on the right side of the homepage. APPKODES
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What happened now? In a move to reduce human impact on what’s trending, Facebook has automated some algorithms that will decide what’s trending thus removing the human element in deciding the same. You’ll
just see the keyword of what’s trending, and not a human written summary/explanation of what it is and why it’s trending. APPKODES
What’s good about it? For starters, lesser human involved in deciding what’s trending means, that there’s significantly reduced chances of bias. This removes the chances of error in someone typing out the details about the trends, because now you can just browse through what actual users have written on a topic, instead of some editors deciding it on behalf of Face book. APPKODES
What’s bad about it? Face
book has essentially shrugged of the fractionally small amount of original content it was generating.
By
removing a 25-odd word summary of the trending topic, now everything on Face book is entirely user created content services.
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It
wouldn’t have hurt Face book to contribute a bit of its own take on a topic either. The new style just looks extremely bland. Users unintentionally end-up reading about trending news topics before – now only those topics that interest a user would be clicked.
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